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Thick-chested Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a traitor, damn 'em, I ain't a traitor. I'll stay out until hell freezes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: John Lewis Fights a Strike | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Their salesmanship is based upon the "you ain't doing me no favor" approach which makes the buyer itch for their bits of paper. The boys claim they are valuable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Makes Huge War Bond, Stamp Buys | 1/8/1943 | See Source »

...little old white-haired man at the head table looked embarrassed, his eyebrows arched with a sort of "Ain't this a hell of a thing?" curve. He wore the old familiar black suit, black string tie knotted carelessly in a bow. His hair was neatly plastered down, his spectacles freshly shined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: George Norris Goes to Dinner | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Second Front in Harlem | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Bites U.S. In Miami, colored Mitchell Banks, charged with failing to notify his draft board that he had moved, protested: "The draft board moved and they ain't notified me," won his freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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