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...need for men with a knowledge of Japanese continues, yet these men are given no assurance that they will end up farther east than Ireland. Nor is there a uniform draft policy, a centralized procurement office, or a government-sponsored training program. The Navy has its own school, and the F.B.I., Marine Corps, Army Air Corps, Army Intelligence, and Army Signal Corps all make individual sporadic requests for outstanding students. In Russian the complete chaos is even more evident. The Navy has asked for a few men but usually students have to try to find their own positions. Since students...
Meanwhile, the armed forces are allowing each university to recommend draft exemptions for their specialists as they see fit. Having failed to formulate specifications for such recommendations, the services have indirectly given rise to a situation in which some schools feel justified in asking deferments for almost all their students regardless of fields, while other universities, like Harvard, don't even request exemption for their technicians...
...candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said that he would make a "terrible" governor. He charged that the draft-Mead move was a "piece of political fakery." Jim Mead, who never hurts feelings if he can help it, and sure of himself under the Roosevelt banner, cooed toothily: "Under no circumstances will I engage in a campaign of vituperation...
After waging newspaper war on his Manhattan draft board, impugning its motives in classifying him as 1-A, big, shambling, 41-year-old Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor of Manhattan's New Deal tabloid PM, won the last round by volunteering for enlistment as a private...
Thirty-three-year-old Playwright William Saroyan got $60,000 from M.G.M. for his modestly titled Human Comedy, promptly distributed most of it among his innumerable Armenian relatives-whom he had claimed in his draft application as dependents. Result: his dependents ceased to be dependents, and Saroyan was reclassified by his San Francisco draft board as "potential 1-A." The playwright asked deferment in order to carry through with a serial production, beginning this month, of 20 Saroyan plays. Said he: "We have a terrific program outlined. If I were drafted or given a commission to do writing it couldn...