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...Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave was still not tough enough, frightened enough, or brave enough to make certain vital decisions now-to levy taxes that would prevent inflation, to stop waste of materials badly needed for war, to draft the best fighting men in the nation. The Land of the Free plainly did not yet understand the price of freedom today...
...that enough poll-tax payers (250 required) had signed a petition for the Aug. 4 primary to permit the candidacy of grey-haired, bespectacled Emmett C. Davison, 64, secretary-treasurer of A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, onetime mayor of Alexandria, member of the northern Virginia draft-appeals board. In 1936 Davison was tried, acquitted on a charge of concealing assets in personal bankruptcy proceedings. He ran again for mayor of Alexandria, to vindicate himself, was badly beaten...
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 41-year-old editor of the New York tabloid PM, told his draft board he wanted to "be in the job where I can do this country's enemies the most harm," was classified 1-A, ordered to report for induction this week-at 5:45 a.m. But his rejection by Army doctors was still possible...
...willing lumberjacks. Last week Donald Nelson found the situation so critical that he named a West Coast lumber tsar, asked lumber workers to give up their vacations; operators to cut the best and most accessible lumber this year; State Governors to allow logs to be hauled on Sunday; draft boards to defer skilled lumber workers; all concerned to reduce labor turnover...
...hundred and eighteen students enrolled in ROTC have signed up in the 18-month intensified course in Business Administration; 350 men in the Army Quartermaster Corps and Naval Supply are participating in the 12-month Industrial Administration course; and 16 men, most of whom are in low draft categories for reasons of physical condition, have signed up for the regular program for the Master of Business Administration degree...