Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...
...heard National C. I. O. Secretary James Barron Carey and General Counsel Lee Pressman defend labor's right to strike in defense industries, heard them oppose any move to abridge the right to strike, for whatever reason. He heard other speakers cry for more representation of labor on draft boards. But diplomatic Lewis Hershey confined him self to a cogent generality that was buzzing that day, as it had for weeks past, in many a citizen's mind. The U. S. must have unity in national defense, said he significantly, "Lest we each hang separately." Evidence that that...
...officers of the U. S. Army had been dozing at their posts, or-what was worse -fumbling with deadly effect. The official who had most to say about this state of affairs was Henry L. Stimson, Mr. Roosevelt's Republican Secretary of War. Undertaking to explain why the draft and National Guard mobilization had fallen behind schedule (TiME, Nov. 25), he was as blackly frank as William S. Knudsen was on industrial defense. With other dark bits in the news. Mr. Stimson's statement made a sorry record, sinisterly remindful of the British in Norway, the French...
...totted up (Nov. 21), were 106,833 mobilized National Guardsmen, 387,811 three-year Regulars, only 18,000 of an expected 90,000 one-year draftees and volunteers. Call of 96.000 additional Guardsmen must be delayed (anywhere from one week to two and a half months) ; so must further drafts. Only heartening item in this list was the rapid increase in Regulars (up from 242,000 since last June). Putting Regular enlistments ahead of Guard mobilization and the draft made sense, because the Regulars must bear the burden of training the new Army...
...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...