Word: deferements
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Leahy swings even more weight under the new President than he did under the man who appointed him to the job. F.D.R.'s was an assertive voice. Harry Truman knows his limitations and is more apt to defer to the judgment of the old seadog who has devoted his life to naval and military affairs. At meetings of the Chiefs of Staff Leahy is no mere observer. Among other things he is a useful moderator. Sandpaper is abrasive; but it also smooths...
...Compulsion. In isolationist Quebec, "conscription" is a fighting word. In deference to Quebec, Prime Minister King had always insisted that there should be no compulsion on any Canadian to serve outside of Canada. Now he had summoned his Cabinet to hear Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, just back from overseas. The Canadian casualty toll, 61,295 in September, was up more than 10,000 since Aug. 1. Since then, the Canadian infantry in France had suffered fur ther heavy losses. The question before the Cabinet: were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time...
Last week the squabbling got organized, by formation under WMC of an inter-agency Committee on Manpower Claimants. First job of the CMC was to decide which industries rate deferments. By week's end CMC had settled on five: aircraft, landing craft, rubber, rockets, radar. Competition was still fierce, since it is planned to defer a maximum of only 75,000 men. Once the industries are agreed on, the next job will be to list the most critical plants within each industry. Final selection of workers to be deferred will be left to plant bosses, local and State draft...
...draft bit deep into WPB itself. WPB asked the War Manpower Commission to defer 245 of its draft-age employes. WMC, which passes on all Government deferment applications, turned down all but seven...
...Senator Pipe Down? Thus, for five hours, Senator Wheeler spoke to empty seats and took his heckling. Though his evidence was hearsay, he had made three points: 1) many a Government bureau is overstaffed, 2) many a war plant, particularly those with cost-plus contracts, has used occupational deferments to hoard unnecessary workers, 3) if U.S. manpower were used more efficiently, fewer fathers would be drafted. But Senator Wheeler had changed no one's mind about his bill to defer fathers. At the unanimous urging of Army, Navy, Selective Service and Manpower Commission, Congress will do nothing to stop...