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Word: defers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Draft boards have no authority to defer older men merely because of age. But, at the behest of national draft headquarters in Washington, local boards, civilian physicians and Army doctors have already begun to find other excuses for deferment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Younger Soldiers | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...treaty seemed likely to increase Japan's annual imports from 26,000,000 yen (1939) to 70,000,000 yen (including coal, corn, iron ore, zinc, tin ore, in return for which Japan would sell textiles, porcelain, manufactured goods). In addition, Japan will be allowed to defer payments for one year on the large supplies of rice she expects to buy. Rubber, which Japan sorely needs, was not specifically mentioned-neither was it specifically excluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Bet South | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...March 7, Lewis B. Hershey, Deputy Director of the Selective Service System, issued an official ruling to all State Directors permitting the local boards to "defer such a registrant in Class 1-A for a relatively short period pending such examination." This solved the problem for most of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFERMENT WILL SOLVE LAW SCHOOL PROBLEM OF BAR EXAMS AFTER JULY 1st | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

Local boards, continued this memorandum, may at their discretion defer registrants for a short period to Class II, who are preparing or training for examinations held "under public authority" for persons desiring to be licensed in various professional and technical fields...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline, | Title: SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD SET UP TO AID STUDENTS | 5/1/1941 | See Source »

...effects of conscription upon the students, the Conference approved a plan to prohibit the drafting of undergraduates until the end of the academic year. Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress, called for "more scholarships, not more battleships" and asked that students organize, as in England, to defer their conscription into the Army until after graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Conference Discusses Student Problems in Democracy | 4/8/1941 | See Source »

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