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There remained only big Jim Farley. What Harry Hopkins & Co. wanted was a real draft: nomination by actual acclamation. Failing this, the Janizariat wanted a nomination by apparent acclamation. But Mr. Farley stood solidly in the way, and no nomination opposed by the only Democrat beloved from end to end of the party could be made to seem unanimous...
...Voice which thus lifted delegates and spectators from apathy into their first big, draft-Roosevelt demonstration belonged neither to Alben Barkley, to the People, nor to God. Politically it belonged to Chicago Bosses Ed Kelly and Pat Nash: technically, to their Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. ("for Democrat") Garry...
Never primarily evangelists, Quakers have lately scrutinized converts more carefully than ever, have delayed the admission of many a draft-age applicant. Their fear: if a large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World...
...passion for anonymity." In the reforming New Deal of 1939, Wall Streeter Forrestal's appointment would have set alienists to wondering. In the war-defense New Deal of 1940's summer it got only passing notice. For against the possibility of war, Franklin Roosevelt's draft on business was already functioning. To implement his Defense Advisory Commission, many a high-pay U. S. businessman was already hard at work in the Capital at a salary of $1 a year...
Initiators of the plan for universal training were the Times'?, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler and Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark, whose Military Training Camps Association set out to raise $250,000 to promote acceptance of a peacetime draft...