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With the posting of order numbers the draftee may tell with reasonable certainty how soon he is likely to be called. It is probable that the first fifteen numbers will produce the 30,000 the Army has asked for in November. This means that the University quota will not exceed twenty...
...Some gentlemen may be tempted to exceed the mark in their repentance of their sins of silence. Among these the name of Archibald McLeish leads all the rest. . . . This custodian of the nation's culture inferred last spring that the Word was more important than the truth, when he scored the post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular...
Loans. Better-than-average insurance prospects, many draftees are already good personal-loan customers. But only 5 or 10% of all small unsecured loans outstanding are against single men of 21 to 36, who presumably will exceed married men among draftees. (Of the draft eligibles, only about one in ten will march to camp.) If a draftee cannot make payments while in uniform, personal-finance outfits will ice the loan, catch their man when he goes back to work. With only a fraction of their business affected, moneylenders expect the boom in business will offset possible draft losses...
...international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost a leg in a crash at sea as a Russian ace in World War I, is proudest of his feat in designing the first pursuit plane to exceed 300 m.p.h...
...keep his place as official U. S. moneylender, and take the Cabinet post too. Early this week word sprang from the White House that the President would ask for a Congressional joint resolution to permit the exceptional Mr. Jones to hold two Federal jobs. But his salary would not exceed the $15,000 a year a Cabinet member gets. Mr. Jones is many times a millionaire. His present wage as Loan Administrator...