Word: slackers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasped the fact that trained professional, mechanical, agricultural or other workers are just as patriotic when performing civilian jobs as they would be if in uniform. . . . If those same persons were in the Army, they would perhaps do much less real good. Fear that the term yellow or slacker may be given them after the war is driving many essential civilians into uniform. I have recently seen a school superintendent, a mathematics instructor, a physician and several essential iron-ore mineworkers, all of whom were not replaceable, join the colors because of this fear. An unthinking public daily cuts national...
Next day at the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, 1,000 men and coeds jammed into a mass meeting. Up jumped Dean William G. Bek and roared: "Field work is not beneath any of us, and any one of you who thinks so is a slacker in every sense of the word." Then & there the college decided to shut down for two weeks and man the fields. So also did the North Dakota Agricultural College, the State teachers' colleges...
...publicity given to Ingersoll as a draft dodger has detracted attention from Marshall Field as a slacker. Field is of age to volunteer. . . . The term to fit him and all hysterical effeminates is coward...
...SUFFICIENT ONE. THE GOVERNMENT WHICH DETERMINED THAT PENALTY DOES NOT INDICT HIM AS A SLACKER OR AS AN EVADER OF THE DRAFT. WERE HE EITHER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PLACED BEHIND BARS TO BE KEPT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE. AT THE INTERNMENT CAMP TO WHICH LEW AYRES HAS BEEN SENT HE PAYS IN MONEY AND LABOR FOR HIS BOARD AND KEEP. WE DO NOT ADVOCATE THE THING THAT LEW AYRES HAS DONE. IN FACT WE BELIEVE IT TO BE THE SAD RESULT OF A SADDER MISCONCEPTION BUT WE TAKE OCCASION TO POINT OUT THAT HE SPOKE AND ACTED...
...studio for the duration. Although willing to do special camp shows, fretful Jack Benny, after several attempts, had concluded that he couldn't entertain soldiers and the home folks from the same script. His advertising agency agreed, but its announcement of the disassociation raised a few eyebrows. No slacker, Jack Benny this week is right back on the Army...