Word: deferments
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Straw was an amendment offered by New York's big-boned Harvard Republican isolationist from Franklin Roosevelt's neighborhood, Hamilton Fish. Representative Fish, taking his cue from a proposal which the Senate had rejected by a narrow 43-to-41, proposed to defer calling up of men for 60 days after the passage of the bill, to see whether the necessary number of men could be raised by voluntary recruiting. Practical effect of this device, since the Army expected to need six weeks to get its registration machinery in order, anyway, would be to delay the draft...
George Downing, senior weight man, was forced to defer practice until after he had taken his divisonals. With one short week of work-outs behind him, Downing heaved the discus 130 feet in the Heptagonal. Zilly, the Yale entrant, got of his beat toss of the year for 138 feet to take a place in the event. After an extra week's practice Downing should be able to reach 140 feet tomorrow, which would insure him a first place in the event
...their training in my four years as a student in the unit. It complete agreement with Captain Wooley on the issues about which he expresses himself is a necessary condition of receiving my commission, I should be something less than honest if I accepted it. However, although I defer to him in matters of fire control and tactics, I do not believe that difference with the Captain in his economic and social views is any impediment to the faithful and efficient discharge of my duties as an officer...