Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again all the old weary arguments, the passionate pros and cantankerous cons, were being voiced. The young sailor squirmed and fidgeted...
...such notes of sanity were lost in the echoing cacophony of prejudice. The young sailor sitting near the clock suddenly had enough. He leaped to the railing around the gallery, clung precariously to one of the steel uprights that support the roof and yelled: "Mr. Speaker, I demand the right to be heard...
Several Congressmen sitting just below the sailor scuttled for safety, apparently afraid he was going to jump. The voice of the sailor cut across the hum: "I am a man from the service. Do I have the floor?" Then, before he was pulled from his perch, he shouted: "I speak for the thousands who cannot be here. Why does a man have to pay tribute for the right to vote? Why should a man be taxed to vote when he can fight without paying...
...Part of Congress. Taken to the Capitol police room, the questioning sailor identified himself as Signalman, Second Class, Evan Owen Jones of Los Angeles. Slim, blue-eyed, 21, Signalman Jones had in 1939 been valedictorian of his class at Los Angeles' Fremont High School, had entitled his address "A Young Man Asks Questions." Before House Sergeant-At-Arms Kenneth Romney and Capitol Physician Dr. George W. Calver, who quickly exonerated him of all charges of drunkenness or neurosis, he said: "Those people in there are fighting the Civil War all over again. They've got to work together...
Bataan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) tries to show a few days in the lives of twelve American and Filipino soldiers and one sailor, as the enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked...