Word: birthrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in the prosperous U.S. no amount of persuasion could induce enough U.S. citizens to claim their birthright. Despite posters and propaganda, Army enlistments were not going well. This week, however, the Army was assured of a trickle of replacements. Local boards, after a two months' draft holiday, prepared notices ordering up 25,000 19-29 year-olds for the Army's September quota...
...weighing 170 Ibs., he was "graduated" from the program. Most graduates fall back into obscurity, now & then emerge with a fugitive piece in the Ex-QK Resumé, the Quiz Kids alumni bulletin. But not Harve. His pieces were already appearing in the Times; he had claimed his birthright...
That night, when Mr. Silkin rose to speak at the town hall, he was greeted with yells of "Gestapo!" "Hark, the dictator!" "We want our birthright!" Red-faced Mr. Silkin shouted back: "Really, you are the most ungenerous people...
...minorities to veto advances by the majority" hit a sensitive spot. Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, who demands a separate Moslem state (Pakistan), accused Attlee of "rope-walking," repeated his doctrine that "the Moslems of India are not a minority but a nation, and self-determination is their birthright." Again he threatened civil war if the British and Congress reject Pakistan. If it is a question, he said, of "who can shed the more blood . . . the Moslems can and will play a part, if driven to desperation, that will bring about a real civil...
...Huck. It is this incarnation of the U.S. small-town mind at its best-a kind of adult blend of Tom Sawyer's intelligence and Huck Finn's human decency- that gave his life and gives his autobiography its special flavor. Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom...