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...Director of the draft...
Claim. In Lowell, Mass., a young man claimed draft deferment on the grounds that he was supporting "my two landladies...
...average district draft office is a place where women are not. Draft board members are men, all the prospective draftees are men. By last week U. S. feminists had found something wanting in this situation, protested vigorously to Selective Service Headquarters in Washington. They did not ask to be drafted. But they wanted women to help administer the draft...
Diplomats in the Selective Service office found a way out of this mare's-nest. Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, the deputy director of Selective Service, solemnly issued a ruling that women could indeed be appointed to draft advisory boards. These boards (usually three male lawyers) help registrants to fill out complex questionnaires, tell draftees about their rights and duties. Pay: none, except in women's rights...
...American, single, and if you want to dodge the draft; apply to the Army Air Corps Cadet Training Program...