Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...obtain a one day leave. This is hardly sufficient for most men to reach their homes and return, and it would also involve a great expense. Furthermore, future registration will certainly be curtailed by these rules. In this time when every decision taken will have so profound an effect on our future, an untold number of men are deprived of one of their most sacred liberties and duties because they are "learning to preserve their democracy...
...assignment of order numbers to some 4700 members of the University in yesterday's draft lottery calls immediate attention to the effect the Selective Service Act will have on Harvard's future...
...Effect Until Fall...
...April call for 800,000 will probably have as little effect on the University enrollment, even though it is likely to hit over 300, since with the end of the academic year in sight most draftees are expected to apply for student deferment...
...picture of the struggle of a free people against a colossus of death. Thereafter it slips into a staccato review of political and diplomatic events from 1929 to 1940 with a string of old newsreel clips. Because many of the shots have been cut to the point where the effect is almost kaleidoscopic, the film loses the nostalgic force of a family album, which is always an attraction in resurrections of old movie scenes. But Paramount intended something else. It wanted to show the inevitable drift toward war during the '30s by skipping from country to country each year...