Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply of single men is practically exhausted, of childless men is fast running out. (Selective Service recognizes children born only before Sept. 14, 1942 as reason for deferment...
Again on display in the basement are going-on-13-year-old Gargantua and his eleven-year-old spouse M'Toto. They are still childless-because they are too young to mate, says the publicity. But the National Geographic Magazine long ago described M'Toto as a male...
Leader of the workers' holiday was rash, 30-year-old Harold J. Gibson (married, childless, draft classification 26), president of Seattle's Aero Mechanics' District Council. At week's end, A.F. of L. International officers cracked down on Gibson, warned that there must be no further work stoppage. At week's start the crisis passed. Instead of round-the-clock mass meetings, only a dozen officers of the district governing council sat around a table in Seattle's old Labor Temple. Loudspeakers in the Boeing plants broadcast union warnings to workers to stay...
Confusion multiplied last week, and politics lent a hand to stir the confusion. The House Military Affairs Committee launched a bill forbidding induction of heads of families until all single men, all childless married men in each respective state had been called. A rider forbade induction by occupational groups, played hob with McNutt's plan to force nonessential workers into war industries...
Already, the New York Herald Tribune found, four New York City draft boards had all but exhausted their supply of childless married men. Seven boards had just begun to draft the married. Nineteen expected to begin late this month or in March. Soon, throughout the nation, the fathers of children would be taken from their jobs and sent...