Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Never primarily evangelists, Quakers have lately scrutinized converts more carefully than ever, have delayed the admission of many a draft-age applicant. Their fear: if a large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World...
...passion for anonymity." In the reforming New Deal of 1939, Wall Streeter Forrestal's appointment would have set alienists to wondering. In the war-defense New Deal of 1940's summer it got only passing notice. For against the possibility of war, Franklin Roosevelt's draft on business was already functioning. To implement his Defense Advisory Commission, many a high-pay U. S. businessman was already hard at work in the Capital at a salary of $1 a year...
Initiators of the plan for universal training were the Times'?, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler and Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark, whose Military Training Camps Association set out to raise $250,000 to promote acceptance of a peacetime draft...
...artillery-would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test of vigilance and daring that night and the next dawn, when the transports and their German naval and air escorts set out on William the Conqueror's path...
...Federal Council of Churches met last week in Manhattan to draft a statement on the war. Badly split on isolation policy, it found a weak compromise: to set aside June 2 as a day of peace prayers. ∧ In Chicago, Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp (non denominational) decided not to talk on war before his big congregation in Orchestra Hall (home of Chicago Symphony) last week. Each new headline, declared he, changes his mind. In Jefferson City, Mo., the Rev. A. B. Jackson (Presbyterian) admitted: "I realize the Allies are fighting our fight for us. But we ought not to enter...