Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While most men believe that the Selective Service system is satisfactory, they expect that the army will disregard their training and experience. They are overwhelmingly convinced, however, that what they can do as private citizens can materially affect the course...
Lawyers will be at a premium during the war and will be invaluable in the reconstruction period which will follow the war, according to Dean Morgan. If the law schools do not turn out trained men, the shortage will affect the country gravely in a few years, he said...
Harvard men majoring in sciences need not fear that the declaration of war and the greatly increased demand for a larger army will materially affect their deferment, according to a statement made Saturday by Lieutenant Colonel Roy C. Charron, Massachusetts State Occupational Adviser...
Although Bi-igadier General Hershey, Deputy Director of the Selective Service System, recently heralded a drastic broadening of the draft to include many of those formerly deferred because of minor physical defects, Colonel Charron emphasized that the reclassification would not in most cases affect students. "The increased war efforts has increased the need for trained men just as much as for soldiers", he said...
...skidding. Two days later, the President issued a formal statement about the price bill he had just signed. Said he: "I am requesting the departments of the Government possessing commodities to make such commodities available to other departments in order to aid our war effort. This request, primarily, will affect the cotton stocks of the Commodity Credit Corp. and will permit such stocks to be utilized, directly or by exchange, in the production of war goods. . . . The request will also include grain and other commodities...