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...Fighter. In Belleville, lII., husky (6 ft., 180 Ib.) Edwin Taylor, 4-F because of poor vision, put the blitz on four sol diers who taunted him as a slacker. The results : two in the hospital, one runaway, one crawlaway...
...ONCE THE MOST UNTRUTHFUL, UNFAIR AND UNBECOMING A GREAT NEWS MAGAZINE THAT I HAVE EVER READ IN TIME. WHATEVER YOU THINK OF B. K. WHEELER AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, YOU CANNOT DENY UNLESS YOU ARE BLINDLY BIGOTED AND HOPELESSLY BIASED THAT HE IS ANYTHING BUT A SLACKER OR A COWARD. MORE THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN THE U.S. SENATE TODAY B. K. WHEELER IS KNOWN AND RESPECTED FOR HIS COURAGE AND HIS AMERICANISM...
Against the millions of men called up, there have been so far only 6,036 convictions for draft evasions in World War II. By quiet prowling, without the public emotionalism of "slacker raids," the FBI has quietly nudged some 200,000 other delinquents into uniform...
...years of World War I that Edsel first learned what it was going to mean to live within the Ford legend. Deeply opposed to war, Henry insisted that Edsel be deferred from the draft as one of the company's key men. Edsel was condemned as a "slacker" and "coward." Silently, Edsel shouldered his share of managing the company, knowing that the bitter storm was puffed up by Republican politicians. The deferment was justified. But this was Edsel's first experience in the storms which swirled about his father. The next williwaw came in 1919, when Henry Ford...
...than TIME for the courage of those who nowadays set out to serve their country in the Merchant Marine. Their dangers and their hardships are all the more notable because largely unsung. The fact that (begging the Captain's pardon) the trainees do jokingly greet one another as "slacker," "sucker" and "profiteer" is, so far as TIME is concerned, not evidence of their seeking a refuge from danger but of their good tough morale. In so far as the story in question gave any other impression, it was a very bad story indeed...