Word: gandin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Official reports of the draft card burning have been given to U.S. Attorney W. Arthur Garrity Jr. by Major Remo Gandin of the Selective Service headquarters in Boston. Garrity has said that he may turn the case over to the FBI for investigation...
Students whose part time work is not credited toward a degree, will not be as likely to receive a deferment. However, Harvard does not ordinarily accept credits toward a degree, and this "might make a difference with some boards," according to Major Remo Gandin...
Holmes' accusations are vigorously denied by Maj. Remo G. Gandin at the Massachusetts Selective Service headquarters. "We defer people because its going to be a hardship on them. ...When we can't use everyone in the country, we can and should be selective. ...We take the best qualified and the ones who will cause the least trouble to the armed forces while they...
...Gandin counters, "I don't think that because a man has a low IQ he'll make a better truck driver." He rejected the contention that the talents of high-IQ men might be better employed than in driving trucks. Since the tightening of mental requirements, he added, the Army has had less "trouble" with...
...probably true that many 4-F's could be inducted for limited duty, without any "trouble." At the same time, it is obviously dangerous to think of the army as a dumping ground for the mentally, morally, and physically unfit. Finally, as Maj. Gandin noted, why should the Army take men who are only half-qualified, when with no more trouble it can draft fully-qualified...