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...they couldn't cut those blue coats better, Vag thought. War was all very well, but a woman's a woman. Ought to be. Hall, they'd better pass the 18 year draft, even, if this was what they were using for sailors. "Well at least you'll be here in college a while, eating and getting letters," he said...
...Secretary of War in the middle '20s. A civilian appendage which was supposed to recruit business executives, technicians, etc., the Corps never worked out practically. Reasons: 1) the Army found the specialists' civilian status a nuisance; 2) the Corps could not hold a man against the draft; 3) the Army was leary of men whose health disqualified them for normal service, for fear they would eventually be a load on the Treasury; 4) the Army, especially the Services of Supply, appointed its own officers directly out of civilian life...
Last week Army men marshaled many an argument to show that there was very bad medicine in the Senate amendment to the 18-19-year-old draft which would require a year's training in the U.S. for youngsters before sending them overseas. Chief points...
Ordered returned by the U.S. to famed World War I Draft Dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, now in the Army pen at Fort Leavenworth: $169,079.71, seized from him in 1921 by the Alien Property Custodian. The money had been held till Bergdoll paid back income taxes of more than...
...remarked: "They're all scared," added: "Me, too. But that's what makes a good army. You have to be scared." Cardinal Pitcher Johnny Beazley, 3-A, passed the Navy's physical exam, applied for permission to enlist as a chief specialist in bodybuilding. The draft board of Englewood, NJ. classified Charles Augustus Lindbergh as 3-6 (in vital war work, and with dependents: he has four children...