Word: defers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emphasizing the fact that there are few students who fall into the needy category, as interpreted by the Bursar, the administrative spokesman stated that only the veterans who have absolutely no other means than checks yet to be received are concerned. They will be allowed to defer payment of the current bill to the first of the month of the issuance of the next bill, February...
Last week, ripe for a showdown, New York's Selective Service Director, Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, demanded that the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn start proceedings to get Fishgold his job on a permanent basis. He snorted that local draft boards "are certainly not going to defer able-bodied young men under 30 upon the theory that they are irreplaceable when, at the same time, the shipyard in which they are employed is. denying work to equally skilled men who are honorably-discharged veterans because of lack of union seniority...
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...