Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draft declaration was submitted to the French, Soviet and Polish governments. It called for "immediate consultation in the event of any further political aggression" by Hitler...
Last week the sesquicentennial was marked by two more events: 1) rich Bibliophile A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia revealed that he had obtained, for an undisclosed sum from an undisclosed source, the original draft of the Bill of Rights; 2) Massachusetts got around at last to ratifying it.* Explained Governor Saltonstall as he signed in the presence of uniformed cadets: his State's delay was due to the liberty-loving fathers of Massachusetts having sought to protect the people's rights by "even more inclusive definitions...
Instructions for filling out the draft questionnaire in 1917 permitted a married man to state that he had a child if his wife was pregnant. I was a member of a county draft advisory board, and so advised a friend whose marriage took place later than a certain date after which marriage was considered a means of evading or deferring military service. His statement that he had a child because his wife was pregnant, was challenged, but it stood up, and he got a deferred classification because of offspring, not spouse...
...wonder if, after all, the oppression of Fascism could be any worse. When, three days before Barcelona fell, the Loyalist Government called out all men to help build fortifications to withstand a siege, the city was war weary and apathetic. The job was quietly sabotaged. Many evaded the draft, many worked only halfheartedly. In the last few days before the fall, many Rebel sympathizers-the "Fifth Column"-openly showed their political feelings...
...home. Before the next war, Britain is determined to separate the cannon fodder from the needed workers. Out of a working population of 15,000,000 some 7,000,000 were listed by the Government as employed in "essential" jobs, exempt from voluntary defense duties, and, by implication, from draft. These included some whose possible wartime duties puzzled many Britons: floorwalkers, bulb growers, bookstall attendants, piano polishers, paper hangers, trade-union officials, executives of British Broadcasting Corp. (but not announcers or entertainers...