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...cradle-to-grave" social security report,† whose principle Parliament has adopted. Sir William, explaining his 200,000-word plan to Americans in London, admitted that it will be feasible financially only if the peace is made to bring full employment to the British people. His next task: to draft a plan to lick postwar unemployment. To that end, he will soon visit the U.S. and Canada to study their postwar economic problems...
...resigned as Senior Deputy Administrator. Next, C. David Ginsburg, once Leon Henderson's right hand, resigned as General Counsel. Deferred from military service at Leon Henderson's request, Lawyer Ginsburg, 30, sought an Army commission, as Congressmen fumed. Prentiss Brown moved shrewdly: he had already ordered no draft deferments for anyone on OPA's payroll...
Having dependents is no longer enough to get a man deferment from military service. Before a Senate subcommittee, Draft Director Major General Lewis B. Hershey testified that the pool of unmarried men eligible for the Army and Navy "was practically exhausted...
...time that he had long predicted had finally come. Among the able-bodied of the land, only indispensable workers in essential industries are now immune from the draft. Married men are already being inducted and many a draft board has already sent off fathers of children to the training camps...
...this group the military pickings are thin and thinner. The dwindling number of single men among the older-age group (see chart) no longer meant anything to Selective Service. But the steady decline in physical fitness from 18 to 45 (which was well known) did. The weight of the draft must fall on the man under 30, married...