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...Congressmen liked the idea. But the Army says that its Nurse Corps should number at least 60,000 to be adequate; present enrollment is only some 47,500. The Army is convinced that the only way it can get the nurses it needs is to draft them...
...Senate Military Affairs Committee listened to the Army and approved a draft measure similar to one already passed by the House. If it did not go through, the committee warned, Congress would "fail our stricken combat soldiers...
Navy Secretary Forrestal called Joe Rosenthal, who took the picture, "as gallant as the men going up that hill." In San Francisco, Rosenthal's draft board switched him from 4-F (bad eyes) to 2-AF (essential deferment) because the picture entitled him "to a classification better than...
Last week the armed services were making an appraisal of their Pacific war needs and in the process trying to draw up a list of plants which can be freed for civilian manufacture after V-E day. Not until he has this information can Jimmy Byrnes draft an overall reconversion plan, a job that may well take another month...
Refugee. In Lewiston, Idaho, after hiding in the hills for 13 years because he objected to Roosevelt's election in 1932, William C. Morland was arrested, charged with theft and draft evasion, informed there was a war on. Said Morland: "Who got us into that...