Word: wacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Social Register. Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt charged "unkind, harsh and tyrannical conduct," asked for the custody of their three children: Ruth Chandler, 9; Elliott Jr. ("Tony"), 7; David Boynton, 2. Colonel Roosevelt was rumored to be currently interested in Winston Churchill's daughter, Mary, and a WAC captain abroad...
Scandalous but less serious were further revelations: three WAC privates, among the few dozen WACs stationed at Camp Hale, had been court-martialed and thrown in clink for writing notes (contents not specified) to the Nazi prisoners. Two others are being held for investigation...
...salute to you for your Army & Navy article on "Women" (TIME, Jan. 17). Colonel Hobby certainly is balked, and no one knows better than the officers and enlisted personnel on WAC recruiting duty throughout...
...WAC, stationed in El Dorado, Ark., recruiting women specifically for the Army Air Forces. . . . From my experience . . . and from the experience of recruiters all over the U.S., I agree with you that 'the U.S.'s young women are not listening...
...fellow recruiters and I know all the excuses women can give for not joining the WAC. We know about the girl who doesn't want to leave home and family, the girl whose boy friend or husband doesn't want her to join, the girl who likes her pleasant job too well to leave it. ... We are acquainted with the girl who quite obviously is just afraid of getting her hands dirty, and the girl who would rather follow her husband around from camp to camp than get in the fight herself and help get him home sooner...