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...American-born Jew, feel that the present time ... is not the proper one to form a Jewish Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Paper Warriors | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Denials came on the heels of reports that Scorchdancer Josephine Baker, longtime toast of the Paris stage, had" died in Casablanca. New word was that the American-born colored comedienne was lounging in the native quarter of Morocco's isolated Marrakech in "solitary Arabian splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Meantime in Manhattan another Chinese, American-born Emily Lee Shek, showed her loyalty by topping off a special weight-making diet with two gallons of water. Thus weighing 101 lb., she became the first Chinese member of the WAACs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Not-So-Poor Butterfly | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...torn a leaf from Herr Goebbels' book of horrors. Declaring that no one of Japanese ancestry is capable of becoming anything by a "menace" to the interests of this country, Dearborn officials this week turned thumbs down on a proposal by church groups in that city to bring three American-born Japanese from the West Coast to live in Dearborn for the duration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yellow Color Line | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...Japs found they couldn't run the Solomon Islands without the help of an American-born missionary. And so the last word via Suva is that stocky, jolly little Bishop Thomas Wade is out of jail and very busy protecting his flock from the Japs and the Japs from his flock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: King of the Cannibal Isles | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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