Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval expert of the New York Times, last week traced a whole epidemic of wartime sins to the activities of sea-going unions, and continued to east a good deal of doubt over the accomplishments of the merchant fleet. Using charges of bonanza payments, lack of discipline and even draft-dodging, Baldwin and various American Legion commanders have managed to cloud the record of the Merchant Marine and turn an unfortunate public confusion into a glorious stew of red herrings, union-baiting and war-storying...
Although you can factually disprove the contentions that Merchant Seamen were overpaid, it is much harder to gather facts about slacking, draft-dodging and the other uglier vices attributed to war-time sailors. The full story is that staying "shore-side" meant immediate drafting, which, for good or bad, is never mentioned in the current charges. Further, the purely civilian status so prized by merchant seamen passed with other myths as a ship left the pier for deep waters. At sea, in convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union...
...Banker John Hancock, Wall Streeter Ferd Eberstadt. Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad. Baruch showed him, point by point, where he was wrong. The upshot of the conference: Hauser and Swope would draft a retraction for Wallace to sign...
...Pereira placed a standing order with a bookstore for every available book on hospitals, spent $30,000 and 30 months on research, combed through local hospital records, questioned local doctors, studied disease rates and nurse-patient ratios, watched operations and laboratory tests. By the time he was ready to draft his plans, he was a recognized authority on hospital design...
...work fell into three main sections: the preparation of a series of resolutions on the students' role in the post war world, the adoption of a draft constitution for a permanent international student organization, and the formulation of the tasks which this organization would fill...