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...that they could not distribute literature without peddlers' licenses. Jehovah's Witnesses regard themselves as ministers, but draft boards often refuse to exempt them from Army service. This week more than 450 of the group's men of military age are in prison for refusing to heed induction notices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL LIBERTIES: Jehovah's Witnesses in the War | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Refusing to heed Commander Collins' advice to un-single men, "Red" Schutte is horning in on our very own territory. Fifty men in the second swimming group can testify that a certain red-headed JCC (Junior Cadence Caller) refers to him constantly as her "Superman". We recommend leniency in this case, however, Dote, the redhead is not quite five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

...Russian people, all of them, are fighting like all hell and their fight is in the name of Stalin. In him has the impossible been attained-for a second time. Whether or not we agree with his form of government, let us in 1943 look toward this giant, take heed of his meaning and fight like hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1943 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Soon lean, tall, Red Cross Worker Robert Porter, breakfasting in an army mess, heard a noise he had learned to heed in China. He called: "Those are the Japanese." Unbelieving officers scrambled from the mess hall for a look, agreed with Porter only when one officer exclaimed: "They must be Japanese. We haven't got that many bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Back to Burma | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...which he converted into banana ships) happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: One and Only | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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