Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying this as a defeatist but as a patriot whose prime concern is the preservation of the British Empire. So long as the German Government allows me, I will be here to help...
Attaching little importance to himself as "just a pretty good longshoreman," Bridges vigorously attacked what he termed the "Biddle yardstick for arbitrarily measuring how good a patriot a man is." He appealed directly to the heterogenous Harvard-Radcliffe-Cambridge audience for support of the nation's labor leaders, who he claimed are up to their necks in the war effort, against "sniping attacks" from short-sighted anti-laborites...
...German army and once was reported to have drunk a toast to its honor and glory. In April 1940 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, for "valued services by Brazil to Germany." If the Axis had won before the U.S. became involved, Brazilian Patriot Goes Monteiro would have been in a position to make the best of a situation potentially dangerous to Brazil...
...Harting, manager of the Glee Club, said yesterday that the trip, to take place over the Patriot's Day weekend, would be made almost entirely by rail. The more local concerts scheduled with Wellesley, Bradford, Smith, Radcliffe, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have not as yet been affected by government transportation regulations...
...Francisco pretty Alice Wong, a bride of three months, looked in her hope chest. She had always wanted an elaborate wedding, but her husband, a shipyard worker and a patriot, had used the money to buy war bonds. Alice Wong laid the bonds aside, stared at the pretty things in the chest. Presently she drank poison and so died...