Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Although it does not exempt any one from the draft, the C.A.A. does require a pledge to apply for flight training in the service of the United States. This is meant merely as an expression of the students intention and does not set a specific date of training...
...greater than every before in peacetime," Marx forgets that it has been the impending passage of the conscription bill--and now the actual passage--which has been a major cause of the skyrocket in volunteering. That is, many of the recruits have joined up in order to "boat the draft" and get into the unit of service they prefer while they still have a free choice...
HYDE PARK. N. Y.--President Roosevelt today set up draft machinery to procure manpower for defense of the United States and assured 16,500,000 young Americans who must register for service that their civilian neighbors will make the final decision on whether they will be called for a year of active army duty...
Lewis Hershey likes to stress the fact that, during the whole process of drafting, prospective conscripts need have no contact whatsoever with the Army. Reason is that the Army made a thorough hash of the Civil War draft, proved in World War I that civilian operation was better. Key civilians in the next draft will be the members of 6,500-odd county boards, registrars at some 125,000 voting precincts, who will actually interview and select the draftees. The system is based on existing election machinery, in many instances will be manned by local election officials. For getting this...
...registrant objects to his classification, he can appeal to regional boards (one for every 600,000 population). In theory, he can even appeal to the President. But the Army does not propose to let appeals and delays gum up the draft ("War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals. . . ."). In effect, the word of regional appeal boards will be final...