Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...order to cooperate with students subject to the draft, the Harvard Business School has announced special arrangements governing its ninth annual Mid-Year Session...
...opening of the session, which in the past has been at the end of January, will be postponed in 1941 until February 10, to allow men uncertain as to whether they will be called in the January draft to clarify their position...
...services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president of the House of Peers, twice Minister of Education, four times Foreign Minister, twice Premier, and chief delegate of Japan to the Paris Peace Conference. He helped draft Japan's liberal constitution. But his greatest service was as Genro-adviser to the Emperor, "midwife in the birth of new Premiers...
...Draft Administrator Clarence Addison Dykstra in Washington meantime moved slowly, patiently to fit conscription into U. S. life. He cautioned big employers not to get panicky (on the average, said he, less than 5% of any one concern's eligible employes would be called). From national to State headquarters, then to local draft boards throughout the U. S., went computations of the first quotas to be called by November's end. Nearly everywhere, enough registrants had volunteered to supply the first 30,000 trainees. No man was accepted just because he had volunteered; rascals who hoped to flee...
...calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have 800,000 draftees and one-year volunteers in uniform by next June. By last week, it looked as if the Army would have to add perhaps three months to its lagging draft schedule...