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...from thinking the Army's haste unseemly, wished last week that General DeWitt would move them faster, before they starve. In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming: "Evacuation Sale." In one window, under the sign, hung a red-white-&-blue poster: "God Bless America, the Land We Love." Under that, another sign: "Twenty Percent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Moving Day for Mr. Nisei | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...thumb-in a hospital and in two prisons, in Occupied France. They got loose and back to London. For three weeks, in the notorious Cherche-Midi prison in Paris, they experienced solitary confinement, bedbugs, thoughts about suicide. Their jailmates were in for such crimes as tearing down a Nazi poster; firing a cook (who promptly denounced her mistress to the Nazis); saying sales Bodies (two years); helping Polish suspects escape from Paris (20 years). One night Bessy heard a man being terribly beaten up. He was a German soldier. He had criticized the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girls in Gehenna | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...General Arnold's three- and-one-half page dissertation on "The College Man in Aviation," is a hodge-podge of personal reminiscences, a muddy description of life in the Infantry, and a call to join the Air Corps. It has more facts but less appeal than a good recruiting poster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 3/25/1942 | See Source »

With the cooperation of the Fine Arts Department, the committee intends to start a poster contest, which, if successful in the College, may be extended to Cambridge High Schools. Victory, democracy, and defense bonds are among the subjects recommended to all would-be artists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Service Committee To Increase War Spirit | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

...text of a poster which an African Free French broadcast reported as being surreptitiously posted in French villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defense d'Afficher | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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