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...back-platform appearances across New Mexico the candidate began to learn to use the microphone. He talked of the New Deal's "drunken orgy of spending"; promised "honest jobs for honest work in honest industry"; and always, everywhere, blasted the Chicago "draft," declaring again & again "I am not an indispensable...
Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan. His proposal: to end tax exemption on interest from all future issues of Federal, State and municipal bonds. Senator Brown, a liberal Democrat who is not always a New Dealer, headed a special Senate committee which has been studying the question...
Although it does not exempt any one from the draft, the C.A.A. does require a pledge to apply for flight training in the service of the United States. This is meant merely as an expression of the students intention and does not set a specific date of training...
...greater than every before in peacetime," Marx forgets that it has been the impending passage of the conscription bill--and now the actual passage--which has been a major cause of the skyrocket in volunteering. That is, many of the recruits have joined up in order to "boat the draft" and get into the unit of service they prefer while they still have a free choice...
HYDE PARK. N. Y.--President Roosevelt today set up draft machinery to procure manpower for defense of the United States and assured 16,500,000 young Americans who must register for service that their civilian neighbors will make the final decision on whether they will be called for a year of active army duty...