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...Italian will fight just as bravely and as honorably as any man who fights for justice. I know this to be true because I am of that blood. I am 22 and await eagerly my draft call to help defend America...
This pet project was gigantic-completed, the Seaway would permit ships of 24-foot draft to sail 2,350 miles from Duluth to the Atlantic in nine days. Among other things it called for two great dams (generating 2,200,000 h.p. of electrical energy) to be built on the International Rapids, where the St. Lawrence, slow-moving through most of its mighty length, falls 92 feet in 48 miles. It called for ten miles of canals and three great locks around these rapids, for navigation improvements through Lake St. Francis and the Soulanges Rapids farther downriver, for dams, locks...
...last July a young Methodist clergyman from Boston University, the Rev. John M. Swomley Jr., stood before the U. S. Senate's Committee on Military Affairs and argued against the draft act. Dark, intense Pastor Swomley snapped up senatorial eyebrows when he said...
...draft registrant in Harrisburg, Pa. last week thought up a new reason for exemption. His plea: his wife's "prospective pregnancy." Said a member of the local draft board, granting the deferment: "I think at a time like this his wife will need him more than Uncle...
...will be remembered that the original draft proposal of President Roosevelt included the registration of all Americans above the age of sixteen and a plan of camps for them, because, according to the New York Times. "He was dissatisfied with the infiltration of all on 'Ism' in the minds of youth and felt the need for disciplining them and instilling true American patriotism." This plan however was seen dropped as "too drastic" but has since reappeared...