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Chief victory pulled off by old-line orthodox Democrats was the beating of young Representative Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, who helped draft the Social Security Act, by onetime Irish Catholic Governor James Michael Curley, four times defeated in his race for Congress...
...Navy, which has consistently sabotaged manpower conservation by insisting on its right to enlist any man regardless of his draft status or importance in the civilian war effort, turned over a new leaf. It promised to stop taking workers in industries important to health, safety or public interest (2-As), men engaged in war production (2-Bs), men in essential industry who have dependents...
...general confusion over the draft, the U.S. public has yet no definite idea of the ultimate manpower strength of the U.S. Army, but this week it got a stunning look at the maximum present possibility...
Last week, having recanted isolationism, he made clear what he now believes in. He wants the U.S. to plan for a perpetual draft after the war and to ignore "the usual long-haired men and short-haired women who will want at once to tear down our national defenses." He "will be surprised and very much dismayed if the U.S. ever disarms again." One benefit he foresees from compulsory peacetime military service is a permanent three-year college course to enable undergraduates to spend the fourth year in uniform: "Our young men will profit from a year's military...
Biggest-and still unsolved-problem is labor. Many department-store clerks are young, low-paid and itching to get into war work (or are playing hide & seek with the draft board). Complained one Manhattan storekeeper: "We are using every means to secure additional help, but with little success. . . . It is like getting stabbed in the back to watch business walk out the door simply because it is not possible to get sufficient salespeople...