Word: defer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Donald Nelson found the situation so critical that he named a West Coast lumber tsar, asked lumber workers to give up their vacations; operators to cut the best and most accessible lumber this year; State Governors to allow logs to be hauled on Sunday; draft boards to defer skilled lumber workers; all concerned to reduce labor turnover...
Further assistance to the staff, which has been doubled because of the unexpected last-minute rush, can be given by members of the Summer School who are not bona fide Harvard men, said Leonard. "If they will only defer their registration until tomorrow it will help us considerably." Apparently a Dean's office ruling, makes it impossible to extend registration of undergraduates to Tuesday...
...conferees wrote into the bill a recommendation that draft boards defer bona fide family men, whether supporting their families or nota recommendation many of the boards cannot heed unless they can draft 18- and 19-year-olds. But with family allowances in force, some patriotic 3-As will be able to volunteer...
...Department has approved a plan to enroll college students in its Enlisted Reserve Corps and defer their call to active duty until after graduation, it was unofficially announced by Colonel Z. E. Lawhon, Army representative, at the annual meeting of the Council on Eduation in Chicago...
...Manpower Commission was to be a nine-man board, to include the Secretaries of War, Navy, Agriculture & Labor, WPB Chairman Nelson, representatives of the labor-production division of WPB, the Selective Service system, the Civil Service Commission. In all matters of manpower these mighty ones were directed to defer to Chairman McNutt...