Word: defers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maze of changing draft rules, moves for industrial conscription, bills to defer and furlough farm workers, only one decision was clear-by the end of 1943 the U.S. would have an armed force of 11,000,000 men. Franklin Roosevelt told newsmen they could bank on that...
...Administration agreed to ease draft deferments: Draft boards now may defer a farmer who tends eight cows or does a comparable amount of other farm work...
Congress adopted a tough attitude toward the colleges: although it agreed to defer teen-agers still in high school until the end of the term, college men may be called immediately. But gloom is not evenly distributed on the nation's campuses. Technical schools, which are training more students than ever before, and colleges like Harvard, Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, Dartmouth, already crammed with thousands of Army & Navy men, are not particularly worried. Even some small liberal arts colleges, having heard the worst, found their case not entirely hopeless...
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...
...draft came. The five conscientious objectors were all classified IA. (A sixth man took his chances, was put in 4-F.) Hedgerow besought the draft board to defer its IAs because of their importance: Morgan Smedley, "in charge of the ushering, parking and patrolling staff"; David Metcalf, "an institution builder"; George Ebeling, "importantly placed on the direction committee." They got nowhere. Hedgerow wrote to Major General Hershey. It appealed to Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission. It implored Eleanor Roosevelt to do something. They still got nowhere...