Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profound preparations which the War Department, the Department of Justice, and the American Legion are reported to be making for the recapture, by force or diplomacy, of the draft-evader Bergdoll, suggest going hunting for mosquitoes with a battery of field artillery. The magnitude of the force and insignificance of the game are quite comparable in the two cases. That it would be pleasant to see him behind bars again, is undeniable: but surely the usefulness of his punishment as a deterrent of similar desertions is long since past. Success would only satisfy a natural though some what primitive desire...
...will take care to be safely out of the way before the Knor resolution is passed. In addition, it is doubtful whether his offence is an extraditable one in any case. Lastly, the Baden government, in releasing his would-be kidnappers at our request, expressly "suggests" that the draft-dodger "under no circumstances" be molested. Inasmuch as we are under the burden of their courtesy in the matter, we can only observe the stipulation...
...session this morning which will be held at 9.30 in Sanders Theatre, sections 188 of the preliminary draft of the "Manual for High Schools" will be presented and discussed. In the afternoon session which will be held at 2 o'clock in Emerson A. Sections 9 to 16 of the manual will be considered...
Four years ago at Syracuse University in a speech on basketball, I recommended that representatives of all independent teams and representatives of professional leagues, and colleges, universities and amateurs sit in conference to discuss rules, and draft one code of basketball rules to be sent broadcast throughout the country in order to eradicate the lack of uniformity and irregularities that exist in the game today. If this is done basketball will be put on a firmer basis, and as football, baseball, golf, tennis and other sports, become standardized...
...estimated that seventy percent of industrial accidents happen to persons requiring an interpreter in filing their claims, many of whom are unable to read a danger signal or safety sign; $250,000 is reckoned as the daily cost of these accidents. In the draft, nearly one-third of the picked manhood of the country was ineligible for service due to incapacity to understand the most elementary instruction...