Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ironpants (General Hugh S.) Johnson called this performance draft-dodging, nepotism, despicable and raw. Elliott Roosevelt pointed to the magnitude of his own sacrifice of income* (as news commentator for Emerson Radio, as operator of two Texas radio stations), pointed to General Johnson as "a disgusting...
...vacation, away on business, or otherwise too far from home to register in their own precincts, will not have to go home to register: they must find a nearby registration place, fill out the prescribed blank, which will be mailed to their home towns. Draft-age travelers on trains and airplanes Oct. 16 will have to interrupt their journeys...
...will be a unique day in U. S. history: the day when, for the first time in peace, men born between Oct. 16, 1904 and Oct. 15, 1919 will have to register for the draft. Most of the 16,500,000 know just what to do (go to their local precinct centre, fill out a simple registration form), will do it with no fuss & fumble. But some fussing & fumbling there is bound to be. To cut confusion to a minimum, last week the Army's Temporary Draft Administrator, Lieut. Colonel Lewis B. Hershey, and his associates tried to answer...
...Most commuters may register near their city offices or at home. But in New York City Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, local draft director, has ruled that they must register in their home precincts...
...Information Please" program will be conducted on the draft tomorrow night by Livingston Hall, professor of Law. At a meeting in EmersonD at 7:30 o'clock he will explain "What Draft Registrants are to Do and How the Selective Service Act Operates...