Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amendment to the Full-Employment Bill, he would head one of the Senate's most influential groups. The price of Republican victory in the Senate would also mean the assumption of the Naval Affairs Committee chairmanship by South Dakota's Chan Gurney. Gurney, whose record includes supporting a labor draft, crippling of the Bretton Woods Agreement, and maintaining high tariffs, would replace present chairman Elbert Thomas of Utah, an outstanding progressive...
There was something about the five young Canadians that made U.S. immigration men suspicious. At the Detroit border the Canadians insisted that they were entering the U.S. only to see a movie. But a search disclosed that some of the five had draft cards from a Toledo board in their pockets. They were detained...
Almost at the same time, three more Canadians were picked up walking a road near Detroit. They too had draft cards. Authorities asked questions. Next day an immigration man walked into the U.S.O. lounge in Toledo's Union Depot, called out: "All Canadians step this way!" Eighteen young men answered the call. In four days some 37 Canadians, all hoping to join the U.S. Army, a "career with a future," were nabbed. All were deported...
What had happened, apparently, was that a few Toledo (and possibly Cleveland) draft boards were piecing out their quotas with young Canadians who could not get jobs at home and had exaggerated notions about G.I. pay and benefits (which are no better, Canadian living costs considered, than the Canadian Army's). The fact that a recruit must have lived in the U.S. at least 30 days did not seem to bother the draft boards. Said one Canadian: the Toledo board to which he applied arranged everything, even a bogus address. "We were told what to say and what...
...final handshake." On his anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...