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Regarding your last issue of TIME, you ran an article about the Merchant Marine calling us suckers and slackers. Also stating that we were expected to boo the message from the President of the United States. I wish to inform you that we are not slackers and suckers and also we respect our Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. We Merchant Mariners, 10,000 strong, are trying to build up the reputation of the backbone of the American victory fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...United States Maritime Training Station at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. last week and heard themselves lauded by President Roosevelt (by letter) and a No. 2 company of lauders as potentially gallant merchant seamen. To the undisguised relief of the station's 1,800 instructors, they uttered no boo, no Bronx cheer, and only a few rude mutterings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Slackers & Suckers | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Secret Weapon. In Madagascar, two South African soldiers captured three Vichyfrench ones by popping out of hiding, chorusing: "Boo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1942 | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Washington's last student conference -the leftist American Youth Congress, sponsored, like many another, by Eleanor Roosevelt - met two years ago on the White House lawn to boo a speech by the President. It applauded John L. Lewis and the Russian invasion of Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Small Seed | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Blond Senior Johnny Bunker, and ex-Freshman Pete Garland both grabbed places in the high jump, Bunker took a third, and Garland tied for fourth. On the face of it, this looks only mediocre, but the winner was the famed "Boo" Morcum of New Hampshire, who stepped out to a phenomenal new record of 6 feet, 5 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mackinnon Sets Record | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

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