Word: drafting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have reached the age of 21 since June 5, 1917, must register today between 7 A. M. and 9 P. M. at the offices of the local draft board which has their permanent residence within its jurisdiction, or at a place designated by that board. In Cambridge either the City Hall or the City Building in Brattle Square are the places for registration...
...order that candidates may be chosen from men who have had, or are completing, a college education a special provision has been made to circumvent the regulation which prevented the acceptance of a candidate unless he is already in the military service. Students now-registered under the draft law will be given the necessary papers from the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., then inducted by the local board and sent to the artillery school and there assigned to a special company, where they will be given preliminary training till July 6. Students not registered should come to Fort...
...Give Your Country Your Vacation" was first raised in the recruiting campaign for the 1916 Civilian Plattsburg Camps. It should today be the motto of every able-bodied undergraduate not entering the service at once; the idler is as bad as the draft dodger. Nor can it be a question of training on one hand against war work on the other. Do both--train for six weeks for your own future call, and then work for the nation's present needs until September 23. For no man in the United States should the summer of 1918 be called a vacation...
...Medical School are not liable to military service, they must register and then be exempted by their local boards. It is provided that all persons registered under the provisions of the Act of May 20 shall be placed at the bottom of the list of those liable to draft in the classes to which they are assigned under such rules as President Wilson may prescribe...
...industry is moving forward and is now turning out vessels at a rapid rate. A fair investigation assures a proper reconstruction of aircraft production. We now have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have learned something of the spirit of sacrifice. The whole nation is recovering from the hysteria and feverish but often misdirected energy of the last year...