Word: defer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate aim of distribution. The only way to avoid these difficulties is to provide the broad area surveys which the Faculty has approved in theory but shelved indefinitely. No difficulties, either the piddling ones of content or the more potent one of finances, should be allowed to defer the setting up of the area courses at the soonest opportunity. Without them the distribution requirements, although headed in the right direction, will be a futile gesture...
What drove the blood to Mayor La-Guardia's head was the refusal of some draft boards to defer his carefully selected and trained policemen and firemen as essential employes. The Mayor might further have observed that not only is many a draft board's shirt front stiff, but that no two boards wear the same size shirt. Some of New York City's 280 local boards deferred policemen and firemen while others did not. Some gave deferment to such "necessary" workers as the manager of a meat store, an executive of a firm making babies...
Even more vexed and vexing was the question of deferment for dependency. Last month in Washington Chairman Andrew May of the House Military Affairs Committee said that the intent of his committee was to defer men for dependency, not for marriage. Yet in Washington itself only seven or eight draft boards followed this principle, ordered draftees to service if their wives were selfsupporting. The other 17 or 18 held that homes should not be broken up in peacetime, deferred married men somewhat on the pattern ordered for the New York City boards. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Board...
...Straw was an amendment offered by New York's big-boned Harvard Republican isolationist from Franklin Roosevelt's neighborhood, Hamilton Fish. Representative Fish, taking his cue from a proposal which the Senate had rejected by a narrow 43-to-41, proposed to defer calling up of men for 60 days after the passage of the bill, to see whether the necessary number of men could be raised by voluntary recruiting. Practical effect of this device, since the Army expected to need six weeks to get its registration machinery in order, anyway, would be to delay the draft...
George Downing, senior weight man, was forced to defer practice until after he had taken his divisonals. With one short week of work-outs behind him, Downing heaved the discus 130 feet in the Heptagonal. Zilly, the Yale entrant, got of his beat toss of the year for 138 feet to take a place in the event. After an extra week's practice Downing should be able to reach 140 feet tomorrow, which would insure him a first place in the event