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...topic upon which we can all unite at the present time is national defense," Colonel Dana T. Gallup acting Judge Advocate of Massachusetts, told a limited audience. "Resting upon the democratic principle that all must register and that men are chosen for service by their civilian neighbors, the draft answers the need for defense in a fair and efficient way," he said...
...with its horses, is waking up. The officer-instructors are handling out "unsatisfactory" grades right and left, and their exams are no longer the snap quizzes of the good old days. Only three cuts per year are allowed before the unwary slugabed finds himself outside the Army with the draft hot on his neck. Written work outside of class is demanded for the first time, and the neophyte warriors are actually learning the theory of firing the Field Artillery's guns and of giving commands...
...will represent the Business School, was economic adviser to the Bank of England until 1932 and financial authority to the Secretary of the Treasury until he broke with Roosevelt on fiscal policies of the New Deal. Col. Dana. T. Gallup, who is legal adviser to the State Draft Board will also speak...
...issue before the colleges is thus squarely put by President Seymour's proposal. Either they should accept his grave view of the situation and gear themselves to a permanent program of military training, or they should accept the operation of the draft in the normal course of events and not change their program at all. In any event, a compromise is useless. A superficial course of lectures will aid no one and merely serves to divert the University's attention from the basic problems of why the war is fought to the mechanical details of how it is fought...
Chilean Heavyweight Arturo Godoy drew order number 3981 in the draft, fumed: "I want to fight . . . Hitler, Mussolini or Joe Louis, any way, any time." Disgusted at being called "Liz" for short, Elizabeth Emerson, 16, of Summit, N. J., daughter of Sumner B. Emerson, vice president of Morgan Stanley...