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Sportswriter Cunningham isn't the first person in the country to swear at daytime radio programs [TIME, Feb. 2]. Hundreds of women have protested in vain and wished they could take punitive action on the radio in reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Captain Arthur W. Wermuth, 57th Filipino Scout Regiment, has a Vandyke beard, a 45-caliber tommy gun, a Garand rifle, and an unerring eye. Fellow officers on Bataan Peninsula swear admiringly that, although thrice wounded, he has "absolutely accounted for" at least 116 Japanese dead and an inestimable number of prisoners. He dotes on lone reconnaissance patrols; for two weeks in January he spent more time behind Jap lines than in his own. How he works (according to Associated Press's Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: HEROES: One-Man Blitz | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...family in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1783. As a young traveler in Rome, where he refused to kiss the Pope's slipper, he had his first vision of a free South America. Rising one day from the base of a column, he cried: "On my life and honor, I swear not to rest until I have liberated America from her tyrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Libertador | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...brusque James S. Knowlson, president of Stewart-Warner Corp. (radios), one of the first big manufacturers to go after defense orders in 1940. An old friend of Donald Nelson in Chicago, Knowlson has been helping handle priorities since last September. All members of the all-out war-effort school swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Takes Over | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Students enrolled in Yale's Civilian Pilot Training Course will probably be permitted to continue their flying if they fulfill certain stipulations. The flyers are required to pledge allegiance to the United States flag, swear that they would not take Japanese sympathizers in the air with them, and establish their citizenship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Gears Its Facilities To Support U. S. War Effort | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

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