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...Father Charles E. Coughlin, 50, and John Florence Sullivan, 47, better known as Radio Comic Fred Allen. Not even Franklin Roosevelt, 60, was exempt. As Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy his logical classification will be 1-C, which covers all men already in military service. But a draft board composed of four World War I veterans and a 76-year-old Negro will determine...
...Fourth-draft registrants will have no order numbers or lottery, will not be inducted into military service. They will, however, provide a vast new reservoir of skilled and unskilled labor which tall, tanned, handsome Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt plans to tap freely as the defense industry manpower shortage becomes more acute...
...told the recruiting officer, there were still young men of draft age left in Belcourt. The recruiting officer called the sheriff. Back to Belcourt went a pointed rumor: the U.S. was coming after any young bucks not in uniform. Last week 15 of them showed up at Minot, were sent on to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The Indian maids of Belcourt were left lonely under the Turtle Mountain moon-for the duration...
Finally, both forces hold their noses at men who want a commission so as to dodge the draft or dodge the fight. War Secretary Stimson's No. 1 officer rule is that no one gets a commission so that he may duck the draft. And in the Navy, hundreds of frisky young officers holding desk jobs recently got a jolting communiqué: get on sea duty-or else...
...girls, who don't have to grow old while they wait for a diploma. If they had to hang around Cambridge for one or two years after the accelerated Harvard man graduated, the case would be nearly hopeless. The obvious solution was this feebly disguised attempt to race the draft board...