Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noncooperation in war is the course recommended to pacifists by the Handbook. As a matter of strategy when conscription begins, the pacifist is advised .to set his affairs in order, provide for his family, get his pastor to accompany him before a draft board where he will state his position. If he appears to be defying the law, he should seek to be tried early in Federal court rather than later by courtmartial. A pacifist might exhaust every means, legal or otherwise, of avoiding war service, and still be forced into the trenches. The Handbook lists a series of noncooperating...
...some lawyers turn politician, who made good at it by winning a Pulitzer Prize (Conquistador, 1933) and who supported his muse by diligent journalism, Archie MacLeish won the respect of Mr. Roosevelt and his Janizaries to such a degree that for two years past they have been contriving to draft him into their service...
...this week started a draft-Roosevelt-in-1940 movement by bluntly announcing (in Look, pictorial weekly): "I want Roosevelt for a third term...
...first time was in 1920, when he spent two months of a five-year sentence on Governor's Island for skipping the Wartime draft. He escaped to Germany, where he remained for 19 years. There he wed a gardener's daughter, sired five children. Now living in Philadelphia with Grover Bergdoll's aging, militant mother, Mrs. Berta Bergdoll and five-year-old son Erwin (see cut) had to go to Governor's Island to greet...
...hour; railroads put on 2,500 special trains for Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between 20 and 21 registered for the draft, and labor's periodic stirring, signalized by recent rent strikes that involved 40,000 in Birmingham, grew as it grows each spring...