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WASHINGTON--Far-reaching proposals to speed defense output--including a general six-day week in defense industries and government authority to draft labor as well as industry "if the situation gets serious enough"--were urged today by Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore aircraft manufacturer...
...courses in the College, Navy Sci is still too much of its old self. Even Yale miserably outshot John Harvard on the U. S. S. Wyoming last summer. What with the pleasant prospect of taking an officer's commission while the rest of the boys get caught in the draft, so many are applying to the ROTC units that they can afford to be pretty picky in their selection and plenty stiff in their elimination. Herr Raeder's tars won't be impressed by a Harvard degree. So Johnnie had best get on his sea legs or else...
...that the historic jar rushed from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to Washington with so much ceremony for the draft lottery was not the one used in 1917? In History of the World War by Frank H. Simonds, Vol. IV, p. 41, there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown...
Inside those doors the ten club owners of the National League were meeting for their annual ritual known as the draft. The draft is something the league's bigwigs thought up to prevent the richer clubs from snatching the best college talent. Each club in turn picks, one at a time, 20 college footballers of the graduating class. The club that finished last in the league picks first, the club that finished first picks last. (Whether the club will get the player it picks is another matter; none of the players on the list can be invited to turn...
Though only 50% of the draftees actually sign up, this potential line-up was too much for the other club owners to bear. Before adjourning, they voted to plug the loophole in their draft rule: next year no club can sell or trade its first-or second-choice draftees until one playing year has elapsed, except by consent of the other nine league members...