Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ventura, Calif...
...Marino, Calif...
Arthur W. Balley 2L, New York, N. Y.; Jacob W. Rosenthal 2L, New York, N. Y.; James F. Stern 2L, Milwankee, WisHerbert A. Waterman 1L, San Francisco, Calif.; and Gordon M. Weber 1L, Burlingame, Calif...
...draft board, a picture of an admired good fellow. But for some, the draft was tragic business. Eight divinity students in Manhattan ignored the last pleas of their families, teachers and lawyers, accepted Federal prison sentences of one year and a day for refusing to register. An Oakland, Calif. house painter, Raymond L. Belisle, was nabbed for the same offense, photographed in handcuffs. To his blank registration card he had attached a notice: "The undersigned will not serve in any Army or Navy as long as Roosevelt is dictator of the U. S. A." Tomas Godina, a U. S. born...
...strike walked the 3,000 production workers of Vultee Aircraft at Downey, Calif. Work on a whacking backlog of $84,000,000 (including orders for $50,000,000 worth of vitally needed Army training planes) was stopped. Left in the factory hangar were 17 completed BT-13 Army planes. On the assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages...