Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiction, House Divided is often contrived and melodramatic. As history, it is the war dimly seen through a haze of corruption, mismanagement, profiteering, draft-dodging, mint juleps and delusions of grandeur. Tedious as that is, readers can hardly fail to be impressed by the author's epic attempt to disinter the whole Confederacy. Says one character: "The Lord is on our side, but in consequence of pressing engagements elsewhere He could not attend at Fisher's Creek, Winchester, and Atlanta." If the Lord could not attend, history-grubbing Author Williams could, after a fashion...
...Draft Dodgers. In the diamond hierarchy, the P.C.L. has an unusual status. The 16 major-league clubs own or control 70% of the nation's 326 clubs in organized baseball. But the AAA coast league is 87½% independent (the one exception is Phil Wrigley's Los Angeles Angels). Still, the majors have kept a tight hold on the P.C.L. through the draft law, which forces the clubs to sell their stars or risk having them drafted at season's end for a niggling...
...Pants Rowland, the best way to get out from under the hated draft would be to make the P.C.L. a third big league. The obvious argument: such cities as Sacramento, San Diego and Portland do not have the finances, the population or the parks to make the grade. (West Coasters point out that the St. Louis Browns have played to crowds as small as 478.) Last week Babe Ruth dropped into Los Angeles, threw more cold water on the western dream: "There aren't even enough top baseball players for two major leagues...
...closing speech at Geneva, Britain's Representative Harold Wilson forecast the future: "The methods we may have to use in the intervening months and years may appear to be opposed to the principles and methods of the draft [free trade] charter." Then Wilson returned to London and was even more specific: "We shall be working on bilateral agreements instead of multilateral." This meant that Britain, the second greatest trading nation in the world, would still be tied to the ideas of blocked currency and barter agreements that had been developed by Hitler's Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
Following Usborne's blueprints, one representative per million of population would be sent to Geneva to draft the constitution of the world...