Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...balks in advance at retirement, and the Democrats hesitate to draft him for a third term, just let them draft him for the vice-presidency, where he can do as much good for the country, probably, and more for the party...
...take your hat off in the elevator where there are ladies?-"No; there might be a draft and I'd catch cold...
...story: "Simultaneously with the vote by Congress at 7 o'clock last night ... to declare the U. S. on a wartime basis, the University has been organized as a military post under command of Major Blank, commandant of the Third University Division." Another: "Registration for the University draft will begin today with the calling of all students and faculty between . . . 18 and 25 whose last names range from...
...fall of 1938 The Fifth Column appeared in book form, won critical acclaim. Producers again started dickering; to one of them according to Broadwayfarer Leonard Lyons, Hemingway angrily replied: "Fifth Column, sixth draft, seventh producer, eighth refusal." Soon after, he agreed to let Hollywood Writer Benjamin Glazer rewrite the play. Last December the Theatre Guild announced that it would produce the play, with Franchot Tone as lead. Last week (with the financial assistance of Billy Rose) The Fifth Column opened at last on Broadway...
...line. When Huey was making a name for himself as a young lawyer, handling compensation cases for hillbillies hurt in Winn Parish's new lumber mills (1915), Sam Jones was working his way through Louisiana State University. When Huey Long was baiting the Interests-especially Standard Oil-claiming draft exemption because he was a notary public, and proclaiming that only suckers would fight, plodding Sam Jones, true to his commonplace name, was drilling away in the army. (His boyhood sweetheart, pretty, vivacious Louise Gambrell, meanwhile married somebody else...