Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemicals; manufacture of machines, weapons, ships, planes, parts (including packing boxes and paper); services such as running communications and transportation, keeping the people informed by newspapers, magazines, radio and cinema, heating and lighting homes, caring for the people's health and safety. Draft Boss Major General Lewis Hershey admitted that a 26-year-old soda jerker could be given a deferment if he was the only one in the community...
...Hershey's and Franklin Roosevelt's theory of Selective Service is still that it should force all men between the ages of 18 and 38 either into military service or into some occupation useful to the war. But the latest interpretation showed that Washington thought that at last it had the manpower problem under control. Officials said that only 150,000 to 200,000 men over 25 would have to be drafted during the rest of the year. There were other signs that Washington, after two and a half years of war, considered that...
...only 75,000 men. Once the industries are agreed on, the next job will be to list the most critical plants within each industry. Final selection of workers to be deferred will be left to plant bosses, local and State draft officials. The SS boss, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, insisted that the placing of an industry or plant on the critical list emphatically does not mean that every skilled young worker in it will be draft-exempt. The demand for fighting men will be met even at the cost of some loss in war production. For, as General Hershey...
...which began to emerge from the manpower muddle was a belated equivalent of War I's "work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought it unnecessary, thought a public listing...
...Kentucky's Alben Barkley, is a gaunt young diplomat who used to be secretary of the U.S. Embassy at Vichy under Admiral William D. Leahy, now President Roosevelt's personal military adviser. While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis...