Word: objectors
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...Donate, handsome 32-year-old bricklayer-turned-novelist (Christ in Concrete), just married in Manhattan by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, told reporters he was planning a Hoboken honeymoon. When asked what his professional plans were, Pietro a longtime breadwinner for seven orphaned brothers & sisters and more recently a conscientious objector, replied: "I don't know. I'm too sophisticated to go back to bricklaying and I'm too confused to return to writing...
...Back Bayer was a young (26) poet, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr., son of a retired naval commander, scion of a famed family with members in every war since the Revolution. No ordinary conscientious objector, Lowell twice tried to enlist, later reversed his views because he decided the bombings of total war are unethical. So he refused to serve "as a matter of principle." He was sentenced to a year and a day in Federal prison...
...hours. This serves no other purpose than to let Lionel Barrymore play the crotchety old doctor in the wheel chair, unless it is to prove to the public that Blair General Hospital is still a grand place, even if young Doctor Kildare did turn out to be a conscientious objector...
...many young members in one as the other, corresponds with them all. Last spring a Long Island Meeting wrote this facing-both-ways sentiment into its minutes: "We hold in equal respect any member of our Meeting serving in the U.S. Army or taking the stand of the conscientious objector." Several men in the armed forces have asked to become Quakers and been accepted...
...Crusty, grumpy Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith loudly proclaimed himself a "conscientious objector" to all forms of rationing. Said he: "Why, they even tell me they're taking ruffles off ladies' lingerie. Who in hell expects to win a war that...