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...subject of "draft marriages" he remarked, "Certainly we do not wish to discourage the institution of matrimony, but unfortunately in many instances, the timing was bad. . . When there has been an increase of 40,000 marriages in the first year of selective service, we think we are entitled to reply to the ladies who criticize us for disturbing romance, that on the other hand we have possibly put the idea of matrimony in a good many heads which may not have been previously considering...
...Institute on War Problems" and the Harvard Forum next Monday evening in Adams House, it was announced at the opening meeting of the Institute yesterday. Neither details of General Hershey's speech nor of the meeting were released, but it is expected that he will discuss the latest draft plans...
Montana's arch-isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler voted against repeal of the arms embargo, against Lend-Lease, against draft extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay...
...railroads are highballing into a labor shortage. Selective Service Headquarters last week ranked railroad labor with coal mining and shipbuilding, urged local draft boards to give all three categories deferments. The Office of Defense Transportation said at least 320,000 new railroad workers must be found by year's end. Retired pensioners are coming back to work...
...south Wales, meanwhile, a campaign was started to elect Frank Owen, now Private No. 7956306 in the Royal Armored Corps, as an Independent candidate to Parliament. Until the draft abruptly silenced him two months ago, Owen was one of Britain's loudest objectors to 2D. Crack editor of Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, tall, flamboyant Owen, who called himself a "Sudeten Welshman," had struck awakening punches against British war lethargy, led the fight for a Second Front. He was called up this spring, immediately after Beaverbrook left for the U.S. Some thought it unusual that he was not deferred...