Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home-front scoundrel of World War II, the day of reckoning had arrived. He was the highfalutinest of U.S. draft-dodgers, Serge Rubinstein, 38, who made several millions as a wartime Wall Street adventurer (TIME, May 6, 1946). In Manhattan's federal court last week, fat, shifty-eyed Serge Rubinstein was found guilty of giving his draft board false information about 1) his dependents and 2) his essentiality to some of the 17 oil and aviation companies he controlled. His sentence: 2½ years in jail, plus a $50,000 fine. If he behaved himself, Rubinstein would be eligible...
...With a series of four meetings scheduled for today and tomorrow, discussion at the New England regional convention will center around the NSO constitution draft prepared by the staff and executive committee of the NSO," Miss Miriam Haskell, Smith '47, and temporary regional chairwoman, asserted last night...
Other facts & figures showed the difficulties under which the nations labored, trying to keep their populations alive. From a prewar base period, when the world fared moderately well, China's farm draft power (horses, tractors, etc.) had dropped 20%; Italy's, 26%; Austria's, 40%; Yugoslavia's, 54%; Poland's, 64%; Russia's, 65%. Food distribution was slowed by the war wreckage of transportation systems, resulting in spoilage...
Instead, Oppy went back to his twin professorships in theoretical physics at the University of California and Cal Tech. On the side, he helped draft the Lilien-thal-Acheson report, since January has headed the committee of distinguished scientists advising the Atomic Energy Commission...
...word editorial. (He "must have warmed the hearts of millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during the war, his meeting with ex-super-pimp Charles "Lucky" Luciano in Havana-little-noted Columnist Mortimer suddenly attained the stature of a Dreyfus, and a fortune's worth of publicity...