Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the war G.I.s asked "What's wrong with the Army?" There were eight million answers and some of them were even printed in TIME, with those three little words "Serviceman's Name Withheld" at the end of every G.I. letter. . . . Comes now two letters [TIME, Aug. 19], one praising and one ribbing the brass, one signed by Ex-T/Sgt. So-and-so and the other by So-and-so, ex-Pfc, A.U.S. . . . I tell you, peace, atomic or otherwise, is wonderful...
...More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed for murder or rape of a German or Japanese...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD...
...test case was an ex-serviceman and welder in Brooklyn, Abraham Fishgold. He had been laid off while nonveterans went on working (TIME, June 18, 1945). Fishgold won his superseniority suit for $86.40 damages in a lower court. But Fishgold's union carried the fight to the Supreme Court. Fishgold, no longer welding, is selling trinkets in Harlem...
More than one returning serviceman has come back to find himself his brother's keeper or vice versa. CRIMSON presidents have barked at candidates who used to be their topkicks, proctors and even deans have cautioned former class-mates, but not many of these relationships are likely to cause as much stir as the one involving Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'38, recently appointed associate professor of History, and recipient of several noteworthy kudos, including a Pulitzor Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship...