Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...finally we are nauseated by the transparent hypocrisy of the "draft" for a third term...
WASHINGTON--Draft machinery swings into high gear this week with appointment of 25,000 local selective service board members, promulgation of rules governing classification and selection of registrants, and establishments of conscription quotas...
...decision to help in the securing of volunteer students to aid in the draft registration and the appointment of four standing committees to serve through the year were the chief items on the slate of the Student Council at its first meeting last night...
...Student Council is cooperating with the Defense Committee of Cambridge (appointed by the mayor under the Governor's mandate) to get student volunteers to help register men for the draft on October 16," a statement issued after the meeting said...
Labor. Most unions (some of the largest have already exempted drafted members from paying dues) are working on clauses to insure a conscripted employe's job when he returns. But the draft bill already says an employer must return draftees to their jobs "unless . . . circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so." If an employer balks, the returning draftee can get Federal lawyers free...