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...United States Maritime Training Station at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. last week and heard themselves lauded by President Roosevelt (by letter) and a No. 2 company of lauders as potentially gallant merchant seamen. To the undisguised relief of the station's 1,800 instructors, they uttered no boo, no Bronx cheer, and only a few rude mutterings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Slackers & Suckers | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Insubordination began to get bad about ten years ago when relief came in," observed a Bronx truant officer last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Terrorized Teachers | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...single day in a Bronx junior high school, two teachers were beaten, another's automobile was smashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Terrorized Teachers | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Same day the battle began, the U.S. people registered for sugar rationing. In The Bronx, a grand jury cleared Democratic National Chairman Ed Flynn of converting WPA labor and materials to his own use; New York's Governor Herbert Lehman announced he would not run again. The President had visits from politicos whose business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Almanac | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Long before Marine Lieut. Anthony Turtora's last letter arrived at his home in The Bronx, word came that he had been shot down in a plane over Guadalcanal. So to Tony Turtora's parents the postscript of his letter seemed an eloquent postscript to his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Postscript | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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