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This was good horse sense. Out of Ulster's 1,279,745 people the British draft could not expect to get more than about 50,000 soldiers...
Quarterback of this team was 32-year-old Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, a good-looking Dartmouth grandson of John D. He and President Roosevelt had earnestly discussed Latin America first in 1939. Last year Nelson Rockefeller got some of his young friends to help him draft a memorandum to Franklin Roosevelt's Harry Hopkins proposing the creation of an independent agency to improve U.S.-Latin American relations. Last August Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating a branch of the Council of National Defense with the windy title of Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American...
...medicine (as represented by the American Laryngological Association) last week caught up with grandma. After years of trying to change the subject, the scientists finally broke down and admitted that colds are caused by a draft. Their language, however, was somewhat different from grandma's. Said Dr. Irwin Gabriel Spiesman of Maywood, Ill., making a clean breast of it to 99 other experts in Atlantic City: "Rapid cooling of most cutaneous surfaces produces a reflex vasoconstriction [tightening of blood vessels] and ischemia [lack of blood] leading to lowered mucous membrane temperature of the upper respiratory tract...
Millionaire ex-Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island was ordered to the Canal Zone for Naval Reserve duty. . . . Edsel Ford's son Benson was called by the draft board for his final physical examination. . . . But C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, No. 1 labor organizer at General Motors, finally won deferment on the plea that his wife, who is also his secretary, would lose her job if he were drafted. . . . And 6 ft. 3½ in. Actor Orson Welles was exempted, of all things, for asthma...
...help meet the problem, the Agriculture Department has set up labor committees (now functioning in 30 States) to try to anticipate local shortages, have workmen available where & when needed. Last week draft headquarters asked local boards to go easy on conscripting farmhands. Many a WPA project has been closed to transfer men to farms...