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...before, the President had put aside the fiction that he had been drafted at Chicago, in the ordinary sense of the word draft. Now he was going out to campaign openly for the job, paying obeisance to the word draft only by saying that the misstatements of opponents had forced him to speak. Political writers, combing history for a man who had really been drafted, found one (who was more legend than fact): Cincinnatus of 458 B.C., who was quietly plowing his acres when Roman messengers hauled him away to rule Rome. Nobody last week likened Franklin Roosevelt to Cincinnatus...
...President had said that "only the people themselves can draft a President." Now, unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he likened him not to Cincinnatus but to Coriolanus, the patrician who despised the plebeian voters but went through the form of asking for their votes, because he wanted the office of Consul), even admitted that the decision was "of great value to democracy." Candidate Willkie seemed delighted and excited. The general...
...hours between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. of Oct. 16, the U. S. put its man power and its democracy to a test. Both passed, with honors. Some 17,000,000 free men, aged 21 to 35, did what they had been told to do: register for the draft. They went to appointed places. They stood in line. They answered questions. They signed small, imperious cards. They buried a tradition: that the U. S., in peace, never requires its men to take up arms. Henceforth, whether or not they were destined for actual service, they had submitted themselves...
...scribble!" a draft registrar in Chicago begged. "I can't read your first name...
Into the hands of Draft Board 47 in the basement of Phillips Brooks House will fall the fate of 2500 Harvard men. Five volunteer workers from Precinct Two will handle the classification and physical examinations of all those living at our of state addresses, although their local boards will still retain jurisdiction...