Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that the historic jar rushed from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to Washington with so much ceremony for the draft lottery was not the one used in 1917? In History of the World War by Frank H. Simonds, Vol. IV, p. 41, there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown...
...United Kingdom, the Führer's assaults had killed up to Oct. 31 only 14,700. Accordingly, Winston Churchill last week proposed no immediate Government venture in blanket wartime life insurance, although it was rumored in Whitehall that Treasury civil servants are working up a draft of such a bill...
...city's affairs. He got more hearty laughs out of Queen Elizabeth than any other Canadian official when Their Majesties visited the Dominion in 1939. And this year he issued a proclamation (later suppressed by the censor) advising his French-Canadian constituents not to register for the Canadian draft...
Inside those doors the ten club owners of the National League were meeting for their annual ritual known as the draft. The draft is something the league's bigwigs thought up to prevent the richer clubs from snatching the best college talent. Each club in turn picks, one at a time, 20 college footballers of the graduating class. The club that finished last in the league picks first, the club that finished first picks last. (Whether the club will get the player it picks is another matter; none of the players on the list can be invited to turn...
Though only 50% of the draftees actually sign up, this potential line-up was too much for the other club owners to bear. Before adjourning, they voted to plug the loophole in their draft rule: next year no club can sell or trade its first-or second-choice draftees until one playing year has elapsed, except by consent of the other nine league members...