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Last week, ripe for a showdown, New York's Selective Service Director, Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, demanded that the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn start proceedings to get Fishgold his job on a permanent basis. He snorted that local draft boards "are certainly not going to defer able-bodied young men under 30 upon the theory that they are irreplaceable when, at the same time, the shipyard in which they are employed is. denying work to equally skilled men who are honorably-discharged veterans because of lack of union seniority...
...lost 48 Ibs.). When Japs came to call at his Manila home, he took fever shots, bounded up & down steps to make himself pant and sweat. Finally, Premier Tojo sent his personal physician to treat Manuel Roxas; eventually Roxas found his name on a Jap-appointed commission to draft a Philippine constitution...
According to the Yalta formula, any one of the Big Five could forbid action by the Security Council except on "procedural matters." What was a "procedural matter"? The Russians looked at the Dumbarton Oaks draft of a world charter and found two sections labeled "Procedure." They said that matters (mostly inconsequential) dealt with in those sections were excepted from the veto-and that nothing else...
...spit-&-polish job (Chief of the Army Ground Forces), was remembered in a more casually dressed post (U.S. commander in the CBI Theater). One G.I., not recognizing the General as he wandered about the front without his star-spangled insignia, commented: "Just look at that poor old man-some draft boards will do anything...
...happy G.I.s came home from Europe, by plane and ship, carrying barracks bags and German sabers, whooping, shouting and kneeling to kiss the U.S. earth. Yet the draft went on-with men over 30 now exempt. And this week, as the fourth wartime Memorial Day passed, U.S. casualties in World War II passed...