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...find out my draft number? I did not register, so I don't know where my local board is. How does one go about applying for Old-Age pensions...
...Albany, Christopher Columbus, a waiter, failed to get into the Navy, but waited his turn in the draft. His order number...
Deferred. In New Britain, Conn., a man obtained draft deferment because his occupation was investigating applications for occupational deferment...
Last week New York City's Selective Service (draft) headquarters issued the following handout: ". . . Our paper work is endless and, in 99% of the cases, of only official interest. The remaining one per cent occasionally brightens our day. Herewith is a file of the more curious communications [from draft registrants, their friends, et al.]. Names of people and towns have been changed. Otherwise the wording is verbatim." Some of the communications...
Twelve per cent of all draftees accepted by local draft boards have been rejected by the U. S. Army for physical defects. Recently an Army induction officer found a Chicago draftee with a glass eye. Growled the disgusted medico: "Some of these days one of these boys is going to come in here with a wooden...