Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hours between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. of Oct. 16, the U. S. put its man power and its democracy to a test. Both passed, with honors. Some 17,000,000 free men, aged 21 to 35, did what they had been told to do: register for the draft. They went to appointed places. They stood in line. They answered questions. They signed small, imperious cards. They buried a tradition: that the U. S., in peace, never requires its men to take up arms. Henceforth, whether or not they were destined for actual service, they had submitted themselves...
...scribble!" a draft registrar in Chicago begged. "I can't read your first name...
Sing Sing penitentiary officials patiently reiterated that eligible prisoners must wait until release, then register at nearest local draft boards...
General Disciplined. Dorothy Thompson was not the only columnist who lost a column last week. On registration day, as 17,000,000 might-be soldiers lined up for the draft, red-nosed, irascible General Hugh Samuel Johnson (who managed the last U. S. draft in World War I) sent out a column in which he said that Conscription Chief Dr. Clarence Addison Dykstra had turned up "on the rolls of the Dies Committee, all tangled up with the heads of Communist organizations," accused General Oliver P. Echols of overstepping his authority in rejecting Captain Elliott Roosevelt's resignation (TIME...
Smoothing out its machinery to handle problems arising from the Selective Service Act, the University announced last night the names of Faculty members who have volunteered to answer student questions about the draft...