Word: fs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land again urged a national service act. But last week the House Military Affairs Committee flatly declined to report a bill which would force 4-Fs into war work or Army labor battalions, asserting that the Army already has all the authority it needs to draft 4-Fs for noncombat service...
...M.I.T. whose laboratories include the U.S. headquarters for electronic research, 478 irreplaceable men under 26 (not including 4-Fs) faced imminent in duction. A dozen had already gone. Said M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton: "Selective Service is rapidly becoming no longer selective...
...other half of the pattern which began to emerge from the manpower muddle was a belated equivalent of War I's "work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought...
...assortment of players and prospects had fairly stable elements: children, old men (as ballplayers go), 4-Fs, a few discharged war veterans, a few Latin Americans, But there was also the bogey of a draft of 4-Fs into essential industries. By midsummer the national pastime might be almost exclusively a sport for the young and the old. Dodger President Branch Rickey offered a plan: let all the clubs limit their reserve lists of players to an agreed figure and pool the surplus, to be drawn on whenever any club needed a replacement...
Last week the President's five-man medical board turned in its fact-crammed report. For fathers the news was gloomy: combing the nation's 3,357,000 4-Fs would probably produce only about 200,000 fit for active service. Draft boards, already behind in their quotas, would have to 1) quicken the fast pace at which fathers are being inducted, 2) reclassify still more men-single and married-now classed as essential workers...