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...petition requesting Congress to strike out the amendment of the 18 and 19-year-old draft bill which stipulates that men under twenty serve a year of training prior to being shipped overseas was circulated in four House dining halls yesterday by a three-man committee...
...domestic policies of the New Deal. He has had the vision to see the necessity for them. And while Senator Lodge has voted against most of the President's foreign policy, Mr. Casey has supported it. He voted for the fortification of Guam, aircraft appropriations, neutrality revision, lend-lease, draft extension and renewal of the trade pacts. Though he naturally has made many mistakes he has resolutely proven to be a fighter for progressive democracy at home and abroad. He deserves to be elected to the Senate...
...second course in American thought and institutions may also be offered. Designed to give a general picture of jour American heritage, it will give the pre-draft student a clear understanding of the war issues...
...rooms, for instance, serves now as a center for members of the Navy Training School and their wives. Draft Board 47 has long maintained its quarters in the basement of the building. The work which is done by PBH in all its aspects is made possible by yearly contributions from students. Faculty, and Alumni, and by far the largest part of this depends on the amount which can be allotted from the Harvard Service Fund...
...eighteen-nineteen draft is an integral part of an all-out war effort. But it is no more so than the induction of married men with or without dependents. This is the time for the Army to decide who shall go and when. It is time for a quibbling Congress to stop hamstringing military procurement, to let down the remaining bars and to allow military effectiveness to control the decisions...