Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another proposal is General Hershey's which has just recently received a great deal of publicity, Hershey wants a nation-wide test of all students at college age. Men receiving a certain score would be deferred. (Most Harvard men would stay in school if the original score Hershey mentioned were used.) In addition a certain top percentage of each class would be deferred automatically. The Director of Selective Service has now asked the executive agencies to pass on this plan so President Truman can put it into operation immediately under the present selective service...
...question, "When does a boy become an adult?", Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey had an answer: "Remember, a boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does...
...induction under Selective Service administrative regulations. Under these regulations those who onlist in "troop basis" reserve units will not be called up by Selective. Service so long as they participate satisfactorily in reserve duties. This regulation can be changed at any time, however, by administrative order by General Hershey, but probably will remain in force as far as can be determined...
...York World Telegram and Sun said last night that General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director, has proposed that college students now facing draft should be deferred through their next year if they are in the upper brackets of their classes or able to pass certain aptitude tests...
Members of Congress blinked. So many men were exempted under current draft provisions that Selective Service was already having an all but impossible time filling the Army's monthly calls. "What I have to do," complained Selective Service Chief Lewis Hershey last week, "is to figure out how to raise an armed force . . . without taking anybody." If the Army needed men so badly, why didn't it call up the remaining National Guard divisions and Reserve units first...