Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young man named Thomas Kelly sat on a campus bench reading Shelley by the light of the moon. To the cops who saw him there, this seemed highly suspicious conduct. Kelly didn't think his conduct needed any defense or explanation and he couldn't produce a draft card. So they jugged him. Said one policeman: "See if you can take that, Lord Byron...
With an eye to the rapidly-appreaching Executive meetings in Chicago this month at which plans for a N. S. O. draft constitution will be formulated, the conferees, briefed by Miss Miriam Haskell of Smith, Massachusetts regional representative to the coming meetings, on their opinions of the issues that will be discussed...
...Under draft age in World War I, Young got a job cutting smokeless powder at the Du Pont war plant at Carneys Point, NJ. at 28? an hour, ended up in the Du Pont treasurer's office in Wilmington. In 1920, having inherited $15,000 from his maternal grandfather, he moved to New York and went broke playing the market. He went to work for General Motors and was earning $35,000 a year as assistant treasurer when he left, in 1929, to become financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob, then top financial man at Du Pont...
...first, like many French Canadians, Rodrigue Villeneuve was a nationalist and isolationist. Yet when war came, Cardinal Villeneuve shed his isolationism, urged French Canadians, foes of conscription and overseas service, to register for the draft and to enlist. He said in 1941 : "We are legally at war and we are bound to fight. . . . You cannot fight this war by condensing the horizon to this continent...
...packed his briefcase again. In went: the draft of an article he had promised to write for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a report on RFC consolidation, a report by the monetary committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, an article on the Niirnberg trials, the Economic Report of the President. In a corner of his office he noticed one of the brooms which Ohio's Congressman George Bender, for a gag, had distributed to his G.O.P. colleagues when the new-broom Republican Congress had convened. Senator Taft, recalling the nasty morning, took it along. His car would be covered with...