Word: objectore
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...individual draft boards, which will either put the men in 4-E or order them to report to the army, if the claim is refused. An appeal, within five days, to an advisory board which may reclassify him is the only remaining step for a conscientious objector...
Britain last week awarded the George Medal for civilian bravery to a conscientious objector. Recipient was a studious, 35-year-old insurance agent, Henry Frank ("Monty") Finch. The award was posthumous...
...good-natured, redheaded, gangling young hillbilly from Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains joined the Big Parade and headed for Europe with the 82nd Division of the A.E.F. His name was Alvin Cullum York, and the way he could handle a Springfield was a caution. Originally a conscientious objector, he had overcome his religious scruples against killing to go abroad and put a stop...
...Patrick Dollan is a stern, old-fashioned Socialist and onetime conscientious objector who has presided since 1938 over Glasgow as Lord Provost (mayor) of Britain's most radical city. In a career of laird-baiting he has come to consider himself an expert on such families as that of the young Duke of Hamilton, on whose estate Rudolf Hess landed unexpectedly last month. Sir Pat claimed last week to have the lowdown on the Hess case. The "genuine truth," as he revealed it to a War Weapons Week audience in Fifeshire...
...single boy or girl Rector Price met was a conscientious objector. But he found no enthusiasm for the U. S. entering the war, a general feeling among the boys that they were willing to be drafted, but far from eager...