Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...your Oct. 28 number of TIME . . . you state that General Hugh S. Johnson "managed the last U. S. draft in World War I." The statement is not true and should be corrected...
...General Johnson but Major General Enoch H. Crowder was director of the draft in World War I. But civilians handled registration, ruled on craft matters. Today even the director is a civilian, and, as TIME said, the Army keeps "as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually inducted into service...
...Carnegie Foundation on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 20 Progressive Educators gathered last week to draft a momentous report. It was to tell the results of the Progressive Education Association's famed "Eight-Year Study." The study had cost $500,000 of Carnegie and Rockefeller money. On it, Progressive Educators had staked their reputations and possibly the future of Progressive Education. Last week they had a verdict...
Last week the draft passed its hand-&-bunting stage, became serious business for the young men of the U. S. Some took it with a smile. First man called up in Cook County, Ill., Truck Driver Richard Rizzo (5 ft. 2½, 110 lb.) posed with his draft board, a picture of an admired good fellow. But for some, the draft was tragic business. Eight divinity students in Manhattan ignored the last pleas of their families, teachers and lawyers, accepted Federal prison sentences of one year and a day for refusing to register. An Oakland, Calif. house painter, Raymond...