Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postulant for Holy Orders, as a graduate of Harvard, as a veteran of the 1st Division, as an admirer of Lincoln, I cannot believe that a state, useless tablet or plaque will serve to memorialize the sacrifices of my class mates and friends. Let us by all means have, as Mr. Warren suggests, something which "seek to radiate the thought of heroic sacrifice" Let it be a thing of beauty and nobility. But it must point beyond itself and even beyond the men to whom it is dedicated to fulfill these functions...
...Georges Montel, a native of France, got a quickie license from the college only last September. He also had a war record: he served the Vichy government. The third, a local doctor pinch-hitting as head surgeon, was brushed aside. Last month the Sorel hospital turned down the veteran, hired Collaborator Montel...
...Montel had entered Canada illegally two years ago, had escaped deportation through pull in high places (TIME, Oct. 18). Only last week did Quebec doctors and the Canadian Legion hear that he had won his new job at a veteran's expense...
...College of Physicians and Surgeons, the doctors squawked only to each other, shunned public protest. But the Legion pulled no punches. "Rash injustice and discrimination," said William V. G. Neish, president of the Quebec command. The Quebec City branch protested against "the manner in which an R.C.A.M.C. war veteran was set aside to place a French refugee." "Under what circumstances," it asked, "was he granted a special license...
Gallagher, 20-year-old veteran from North Cambridge, was trapped Friday by Inspector Joseph P. Breen in a North Cambridge restaurant, and was taken to Central Square police station...