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...urged Congress indirectly, through a letter to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, to empower him to repeal individual items in bills (a death blow to pork-barrel legislation). He went ahead with plans for manpower mobilization-under which the 26,500,000 men registered in the draft will be classified for work in war industries, if they cannot fight...
Belles Toil. In Manhattan, 300 wailing, dejected gypsies saw a draftee off to camp. Gypsy "King" Steve Kaslov had tried to get him deferred, as a married man. Replied a draft official: "Selective Service is well aware that it is your tribal custom to have the women support...
...will not kill the liberal tradition at Harvard, he stated. "Of course, preparation for the conflict is our first concern, but the draft-system encourages a student to regard his studies as his first duty until he is called. A liberally trained man will eventually make a better officer...
been trained one and two years for Naval Reserve duty would suddenly be snatched up by draft boards. The new plan automatically makes V-1 men ineligible for Selective Service, and makes possible the regular-cruise during war-time on which the men assume active duty. The draft status of those enlisting in the University V-1 program is assumed to be the same as that of NROTC members...
...announcement came as a fitting ending to a hectic day for Newman, which had opened with his topping the list of Harvard eligibles in the recent draft lottery. His serial number, 1103, was the second local capsule to be drawn from the fishbowl...