Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...After registration, but before actual induction into the service, conscripts remain subject to civil laws. After induction, they are of course subject to martial law. The Department of Justice will nab and prosecute men who evade registration or falsify statements at this stage (civil penalty: imprisonment up to five years, a fine up to $10,000, or both). But if they fail to report on the day and hour specified for induction, they will be classed as deserters, tried by court-martial...
...Known members of 1) the Communist Party, 2) the Nazi Bund, cannot be hired to replace draftees in civil jobs. Aliens can be so hired. They are subject to the draft only if they have filed their first papers and made application for citizenship...
Lewis Hershey likes to stress the fact that, during the whole process of drafting, prospective conscripts need have no contact whatsoever with the Army. Reason is that the Army made a thorough hash of the Civil War draft, proved in World War I that civilian operation was better. Key civilians in the next draft will be the members of 6,500-odd county boards, registrars at some 125,000 voting precincts, who will actually interview and select the draftees. The system is based on existing election machinery, in many instances will be manned by local election officials. For getting this...
...difficulty of getting news from place to place through damaged streets, under shrapnel showering from the sky, increased daily. A. P. installed a teletype to transmit dispatches to the cable office. The New York Times hired a veteran of the civil war in Spain, who shuttled imperturbably back & forth between the censor's office and the Times newsroom...
...World War I and the Spanish Civil War, dead soldiers, without any visible wounds, were found near the sites of heavy explosions. Sometimes bloody fluid trickled from their noses and mouths. Examination of the lungs showed hemorrhages, pleural lesion or collapse. Recently Dr. Zuckerman undertook for the Ministry of Home Security a series of experiments on pressure waves from explosions and the effect on lungs. Using piezoelectric recorders (crystals which convert pressure into electric current), he found that the blast from 125 lb. of high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance...