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...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...
Although the details of the plan have not as yet been revealed, a release to the CRIMSON from the War Department states that men may enlist in the Army Air Force Enlisted Reserve on a deferred service basis and continue their education. However, students are subject to call to duty any time after enlistment, but the plan is to defer them if satisfactory scholastic standards are maintained...
...keep up the yearly output of 6,000 new doctors, the Army will now defer from the draft first-and second-year medical students. Premedical students who do good work will also be allowed to continue their studies. All deferred students will be given reserve commissions in the Army Medical Administration Corps...