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Another large chunk of the University's student body and Faculty will register under the provisions of the Selective Service and Training Act on Sunday and Monday, February 15 and 16, when the nation signs up its third batch of potential draftees. Memorial Hall, scene of the past two draft registrations, will again be the focal point for University men concerned...
...workers may have a strong protest to enter. Much debate may well be heard before a universal draft law is passed or enforced. But last week pressure for it had begun...
Britain could not bring herself to it until she had been at war for two years; but after eight weeks the U.S. was already talking of it: a universal draft (not selective)-the assignment, willy-nilly, of every able-bodied adult in the U.S. to any job, civilian or otherwise, where the Government thinks he may be of most...
...most, the McNutt agency could only coordinate the recruiting of man power. Before anyone can actually be drafted, for other than a military job, new laws will be required. But in Manhattan last week Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, head of Selective Service, told a luncheon of businessmen that the time was not far distant when citizens must face the possibility of being either in the armed services or in an essential war industry. Objective of General Hershey's proposed draft system : mobilization of some 60,000,000 people. By the end of this month practically every able-bodied...
...union's insistence on a "closed shop" show, were anticipated by Theatricals officers of the Club. They also feared that it would have been a problem to bring a sufficient number of men out for the show who would definitely not be subject to the draft and who did not have other pressing problems in this war year. Advice of the Hasty Pudding Graduate Board was another important factor in the cancellation...