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When the "father draft" bill became law, the Army won a point of prestige, Manpowerman Paul McNutt lost political face, and U.S. fathers broke even...
...Draw. Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had fought for a sharp-toothed bill which would save every pre-Pearl Harbor father from the draft until the last childless man in the U.S. had been inducted. As finally amended and signed by the President, the bill was well-intentioned and toothless: fathers will be kept at the bottom of draft lists so long as this does not affect "the orderly flow of men into the armed forces...
...Winner. Major General Lewis B. Hershey, who formerly reported (on paper) to WMC's McNutt, became full boss of Selective Service. He had never favored the idea of a sharp-toothed father draft bill. Last week General Hershey told a manufacturers' convention in Manhattan that the Army would probably need and would have to take another 1,000,000 fathers by July 1944. Next day he wired all local boards to go easy on family...
...send civilian and military conscripts selected by lot into the mines. This, the members recognized, was no solution. At best it was a desperate stopgap effort. It might produce more coal; it would also create more dissatisfaction. At week's end the first lottery drawing for the draft was postponed...
...emissaries have been quietly sounding out Premier Stalin and other top Russians on such a pact. They have found them just as eager to buy as the U.S. is to sell. Negotiations have reached such a stage that Washington insiders whispered last week that President Roosevelt carried a rough draft of the pact in his pocket when he met Stalin in Teheran...