Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...days after the passage of the bill, to see whether the necessary number of men could be raised by voluntary recruiting. Practical effect of this device, since the Army expected to need six weeks to get its registration machinery in order, anyway, would be to delay the draft by about two weeks. The House saw its straw, and clutched...
...amendment was not intended to bait industry. Businessmen were cooperating in national defense, he said, but there might be some subcontractors who made essential defense items who were not. But the debate grew hot. Ohio's Senator Taft declared: "I shall refuse to vote for any measure to draft men, and I do not propose to vote for any measure to draft property. ... In drafting men, they may be classified according to rule, and they may be drawn according to lot. However, in this case the matter is entirely within the discretion of the Secretary...
...summer of 1918 the French officers were ordered elsewhere, and meanwhile the R. O. T. C. had become greatly depleted, since almost all undergraduates above the draft age were by this time in the Government training camps or on active service. Practically every student who was old enough and physically fit got into some form of war training...
Metropolitan newspapers were quick to point out that the Burke-Wadsworth Bill promises no specific draft exemption for married men. It was still quite on the cards that the Army and Navy might well require a year's service in uniform of all able-bodied U. S. men, wife or no wife...
Meanwhile, many a public official and newspaper inveighed against hasty and witless weddings. Cried Cleveland's Probate Judge Nelson Brewer: "Those young men who are unpatriotic and ungallant enough to marry purposely to evade the draft will leave their wives when the emergency ends." Said the Los Angeles Times: "Persons who take responsibilities lightly shuck them with equal facility. . . . The mass effect upon our social institutions of debasing matrimony into a funkhole for slackers is hardly an uplifting...