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...supreme accolade probably came from the TIME subscribers who nominated "her" for TIME's Man of the Year. But there is one more chapter to add now to the story of Lucy's trials & tribulations: the U.S. Army is after "her" for evading the draft...
Enlistments and re-enlistments totaled about 400,000. But the pool of such volunteers was fast drying up, and too many had only signed up for short terms-12 or 18 months-because they feared that otherwise they would be caught in the draft and kept in longer...
Universal military training? No, sir! Boys of 18 and 19 should not be taken out of school; they are "the seed corn of the Republic and the leaders of tomorrow." Besides, "if you draft Negro boys into the army, give them three good meals a day, a good uniform and let them shoot craps and drink liquor around the barracks for a year, they won't be worth a tinker's damn thereafter...
...body, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, soon after his return to the U.S. in 1933-presumably at the Vatican's behest. He has made the N.C.W.C. a force to be reckoned with in U.S. life, from the movies and social welfare to education and political questions like the draft. He is reported once to have said: "If your score is over 100 you are neglecting your golf-if it falls below 90 you are neglecting your parish." When 63-year-old Cardinal-designate Mooney flies to Rome, it will be his first air trip...
...from parading young Peronistas overshadowed complaints from workers excluded from the benefits, disappointment that the package delivered was not the one Perón planned (the Cabinet refused to approve an outright 25% share in net profits, basis of Perón's original draft), and the frank, understandable anger of management. Some employers would certainly refuse to pay, if only to test the constitutionality of the decree, but time had run out. A Supreme Court decision against the measure would merely tighten Perón's claims that all but he were foes of labor...