Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled out headboards and started on rummy, pinochle, hearts and blackjack. Some read comics and newspapers. A soldier looked up from his paper . . . and read names of brands from the sheet-names of cigarets, cigars, foods, liquors-and the card players grinned at the sound of them. . . . Men called out the names of stations-Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Cumberland...
...States. Sure, we all know about the former graduate student in architecture who first blows up the pillbox on the local beach and only then gets down to work plying his trade in the form of sundry beach-landing structures. He can claim the Army has read the qualification card too literally. So can the disgruntled G.I. who is in the mechanized cavalry because his mother was a bareback equestrienne for Barnum and Bailey. Nobody's denying they make mistakes in classification. It's a big Army of the United States. But Joe College has no kick coming...
...Draft. In Chicago, Dishwasher John Atkinson, picked up for being without a draft card, told the judge that he used to be a trapper, had once caught a skunk in one of his traps, had to burn his draft card as well as his clothes. In Detroit, Perry James Carter explained to the judge that he had ignored his induction notice because he felt it no longer concerned him, since he was "a different man" after receiving...
...Argentine militarists are playing a daring card, the most daring now existing. . . . We will not tolerate impositions on the international order and much less on the national...
...immigrant boy, learned English by reading the late Arthur Brisbane's column and by rereading English classics he had previously read in Russian. At 17 he was earning $7 a week in a New Britain, Conn, hardware factory, and carried a Socialist Party card. He was a top West Coast newspaper reporter when he joined Douglas...