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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed refreshing to read the frank and factful letter by Ivan Freely [TIME, April 14] anent "bad conduct" discharges from the Armed Forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...bugaboo, public opinion, that thousands upon thousands of servicemen received "honorable" discharges. In the face of hypocritical military caste, pseudo-respect demanded by threat of court-martial, and obedience to hopelessly incompetent commissioned officers, it is small wonder that men of sterling virtue and wonderful character received "bad conduct" discharges

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Freely appears to be attempting to cover up the stigma attached to a bad conduct discharge by an ostentatious pretension of having "guts." It takes more guts to carry out orders from a commissioned snob, Mr. Freely, than it does to refuse them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Opening the group of round table discussions which make up the afternoon session of the annual conference, Professor George de Santillana of M.I.T. will conduct a panel on "The Rights of Workers, Farmers, and Peasants." Also slated are panels on "The Rights of Minorities, Races, and Colonials," led by R. H. Markham, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, and "The Rights of the Individual, and Elevation of the Status of Women and Children," conducted by M. Margaret Ball of the Wellesley College faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Delegate to Speak on Human Rights at Parley | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre in a concert introducing "Variations for Piano and Orchestra," by Nicholas Van Slyck '45, winner of the sodality contest for original student compositions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Concert | 4/23/1947 | See Source »

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