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...seemed really determined to help one of his domestic czars make good. At his press conference next day, he conceded that the Administration had made mistakes on the food front. He promised specific help to farmers: 1) more machinery, 2) deferment of 3,000,000 farm laborers from the draft this year, 3) a "land army" of students, women, part-time workers, 4) temporary Army furloughs, to help out at peak periods. But at last Franklin Roosevelt had been really prodded by a domestic defeat, was really looking for a new strategy...
...bill "relative to conscription in Manchuria" indicated that Japan, for the first time, is preparing to draft Chinese into Japanese armed forces or into labor battalions, or both. This measure may well have been a part of Japan's effort to convince the Chinese that they will have a coequal place in the Greater Asia...
...remedial steps should be taken; neither has been. A bonus should be offered to neutralize the magnetism of high war time wages in industry and the draft status of teachers should be defined. This first step was suggested by Senators Hill and Thomas but action has not been taken. The needs of public education are sufficiently pressing so that the draft status of teachers should be clarified immediately. The objectives of public education and of Total War Mobilization, different as they seem, are not incompatible...
...women without trouble) and she tries to botch up matters between the two stars. This little vixen is disposed of in the usual manner and Miss Goddard and Mr. Milland live together happily ever after. What happens to Milland's business, where he gets all his gasoline, how his draft board feels about him are all disregarded. Handsome men don't have no troubles...
There to a symphony orchestra which rehearses downstairs, a jazz band that makes life miserable one flight up. The undergraduate Student Council has its offices there; so does the local draft board. Service may not yet be cradle to grave, but it is well...