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...districts. Interventionist districts were now red-hot; Middle-Road districts were now Interventionist; Isolationist districts were now at least Middle-of-the-Road. One Congressman after another said the same thing: "They're way ahead of me back home." Southern members who had voted for extension of the draft found themselves local heroes; Congressmen who had voted for draft extension with their fingers crossed found they had done the right thing after...
...month ago Speaker Sam Rayburn's aides had fought and shoved and sweated blood to squeak through draft extension by one vote-203-to-202. Now they told the Speaker that the President probably could get repeal of the Neutrality Act through the House. In August there existed grave doubts that a second Lend-Lease appropriation could be passed; now it was expected to be practically a formality...
...about as likely to beat Joe Louis as any challenger now afoot, but even if Joe Louis wins-and the chances, as always, are better that he will than that he won't-it may be Joe's last fight. Recently reclassified 1-A by a Chicago draft board, the Brown Bomber will probably join the Army next month...
Union College's President Dixon Ryan Fox warned students deferred by draft boards that they "shall not embezzle the time that the nation has put at our disposal...
...Male students were preoccupied with draft numbers; college officials estimated that about 1,000 would be called. Hardest hit: the graduate, law and agricultural schools. Deferred: engineers, scientists...