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This New Deal for the rejected is a constructive idea, but it lacks clarity and completeness. It is patently unfair for a man to receive a permanent 1B to 4F exemption on the strength of a broken bicuspid or an ingrown toe-mail, especially if he really wants to enter one of the military services and is unable to pay the necessary medical bills. But under the voluntary provisions of F.D.R.'s plan many a man will retain his hernia and 4F classification rather than be cured and reclassified. Further, the large number of cases caused by malnutrition and improper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salvage | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

Briefly, the bicuspid-conscious critics of your movie reviewer display much more chivalry than imagination in their outrage. . . . Instead of limiting themselves to nasty remarks about your reviewer, I suggest that they start a fourth-party movement in defense of Miss MacDonald's molars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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