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Congress had hopelessly botched the draft law (see Army & Navy). The bill to extend OPA before June 30 still floundered in a Senate committee. Competing committees wrangled over Army-Navy merger. Action had been completed on only five of 13 major appropriation bills...
...fate of the draft bill fitted a paralyzing pattern: long delay followed by frantic, last-minute improvisation. President Truman had requested draft extension last September. No bill reached the House floor until April 10. There it was emasculated. Then the May 15 deadline closed in on the Senate...
...Philadelphia's great, drafty 103rd Cavalry Armory, a redhaired, freckle-faced youth stood alone. In attendance on him were ten physicians, a psychiatrist, and 70 Army and civilian workers. It was the day after President Truman had, with great reluctance and distaste, signed the emasculated, 45-day draft extension bill, banning the induction of teenagers. Edward Francis Mooney, 21, was the only inductee that day from 16 eastern Pennsylvania counties (pop. 3,000,000) which had once contributed 350 men a day to the armed forces...
...draft act was within six days of expiring when Majority Leader Barkley rose in the indifferent Senate to make a point: the seizure section of the Smith-Connally anti-strike law, being an amendment to the draft act, would die too, and with it the President's power to seize the coal mines...
...Senate dropped everything, and in whirlwind fashion passed unanimously a resolution extending the draft until July i. Within 30 minutes this expedient, conceived in haste, had reached the House. The lower chamber, not to be stampeded, considered qualifying amendments right up to this week's deadline. But somehow, the draft would limp along a while longer...