Word: objectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...
...sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
...George Edward Buxton, 68, who helped found the American Legion in Paris 30.years ago (along with Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Bennett Champ Clark and William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan); of a heart attack; in Providence, R.I. As a World War I battalion commander, Buxton persuaded Alvin C. York,* sometime conscientious objector, that a man could fight his country's enemies and still be a good Christian. In World War II, Textile Tycoon Buxton served as assistant director of the cloak & dagger O.S.S...
...ceremonies Thursday and Friday went off without a hitch, according to Miss Braverman, who reported that no student refused to pay the compulsory $5.75 fee levied on all girls. Last year, one objector protested for several weeks to student and faculty officers before she paid...
...Poet Robert Lowell, 30, wartime conscientious objector, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner, went a Government plum - a year's pleasant work (at $5,700) as adviser on poetry for the Library of Congress (where his predecessor was 1944 Pulitzer Poet Karl Shapiro...