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Soberer Sue. In Philadelphia, when her boy friend was charged with evading the draft, Susan Cole, once billed by carnivals as Sober Sue, the Mirthless Marvel ($100 if you can make her laugh), muttered: "The way I feel ... I could raise the ante...
When World War II began, Mark Clark, climbing the routine ladder of promotion, was a lieutenant colonel. He had won the confidence of the men who had the job of organizing the U.S. draft army that came into being in 1940. Under General McNair, Major General Clark flew more than 60,000 miles a year organizing the ground forces at home. He carried on the same task in the European Theater under General Eisenhower. Insiders said that the long-bodied General was a man to watch...
...Draft deferments should be made on the basis of occupation rather than on family status. To draft war workers with irreplaceable skills while "leaving untouched millions of fathers not engaged in war work" would retard war production...
Local Board No. 18 replied that Curran was classified 2-A as "the leader of a union vital to the war effort." But Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, New York City's draft director, had already announced: Curran was a draft delinquent for having left the country without notifying his board. McDermott personally certified the case to the appeals board. The decision: Curran is 1A, has until Oct. 15 to appear before the local board. Said its chairman, Baptist Clergyman Francis K. Shepherd: "We're a draft board and we have certain obligations to discharge...
Edward M. Queeny, Monsanto Chemical Co. president and G.O.P. contributor, had an idea. The Missouri delegation that supported Wendell Willkie at the 1940 Convention had long since soured on Mr.Willkie's outspoken internationalism. Why not draft a set of have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife questions and demand that Willkie answer them in writing? In St. Louis, Queeny drew up nine questions, gave Willkie a ten-day deadline for his answers. Samples...