Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...back-platform appearances across New Mexico the candidate began to learn to use the microphone. He talked of the New Deal's "drunken orgy of spending"; promised "honest jobs for honest work in honest industry"; and always, everywhere, blasted the Chicago "draft," declaring again & again "I am not an indispensable...
Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan. His proposal: to end tax exemption on interest from all future issues of Federal, State and municipal bonds. Senator Brown, a liberal Democrat who is not always a New Dealer, headed a special Senate committee which has been studying the question...
...brand-new fact faced the U. S. people last week-peacetime conscription. On Registration Day, set for Oct. 16, more than 16,000,000 young Americans will register for the draft that is to swell the ranks of the U. S. Army to the unprecedented peacetime figure of nearly 1,000,000 men by January 1941. If there was grumbling or kidding among the young men most concerned (aged 21 to 36), there was not enough of it to get into the papers. A few "youth leaders" denounced the draft, but youth itself appeared prepared to take things as they...
Many a young man told his girl that there wasn't really more than one chance in 100 that he would be drafted.* Many a young man submitted good-naturedly to corner-store gibes at his certain fate. The jokes that were cracked were, more often than not, 1917 jokes, even such transmigratory Liberty Bond characters as Ed Wynn's "Weatherstrip" (so called because he kept his father out of the draft). The U. S. moved uncomplainingly on toward Registration...
...youthful dissenters. Questions put included such traditional pacifist posers as "Did not Jesus whip the money-changers out of the temple?" As the nation went, so went Eleanor Roosevelt. Turning on her old friends, the American Youth Congress and the American Newspaper Guild, for their "claptrap" talk decrying the draft, she offered up her four strapping sons, should the country need them-like Cornelia, who had no jewels to give for Rome but her sons, the Gracchi. From Washington came word that Son Elliott, who has a wife and three small children, had obtained a captain's commission...