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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...your Oct. 28 number of TIME . . . you state that General Hugh S. Johnson "managed the last U. S. draft in World War I." The statement is not true and should be corrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Those two teams certainly packed a lot of punch and so did most of the rooters. (That's rather good, don't you think?) I'm so dumb about football--my escort (oh, no, I didn't go alone) nearly killed me when I asked him if those were draft numbers the players were wearing on their backs...

Author: By Lavinia Dirndl, | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1940 | See Source »

...Orange, N. J., a twelve-year-old boy scanned a list of draft numbers in the city hall. "Looking for your dad's number, sonny?" beamed the mayor. "Naw!" said the small fry, "my teacher's. I sure hope he goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

They fought with elemental fierceness. The lair was threatened. They captured heights by making draft animals of themselves. Even the women dragged cannon behind them. In charges the hairy evzones came screaming, their white skirts flapping like osprey wings. There was no thought -as there often was among the Italians -for personal safety. One young Greek aviator, out of ammunition, flew his plane smack into an Italian plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Murk | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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