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...draft was in trouble, and tough-talking Director Lewis B. Hershey was fed up. If the nation was going to have the expanded defense establishment that it needed, somebody's mother's son was going to have to serve...
...General Hershey was tired of objections, foot dragging, and comfortable talk of deferments. It seemed, he said bitterly last week, that "everyone has the idea no one can make a contribution unless the country can use him in his own peculiar profession, trade, or specialty." Snorted Hershey: "I haven't seen a draft questionnaire yet in which the guy said he shot people for a living...
...General Hershey has been interested merely in your age, your glands, and how well you look in khaki. When the latest deferment brainchild is confirmed, he will be interested in your next hour exam as well. To get college men for the army, the General plans to hack away at each class from the bottom...
...grueling period of vigilant waiting, determined preparation. The armed services announced that they would need at least 3,000,000 men by next June, which meant calling up another 1,200,000 within the next nine months. Director of Selective Service Lewis Hershey urged that the term of service be increased from 21 months to 30, that World War II veterans under 26 be included in the draft, that rules be changed in order to rope in more men claiming exemptions and men previously judged to be unfit. This was not a temporary program, Hershey said, but a program...
...with cordite fumes. Marines were running in every direction. After a moment I caught sight of Captain Jaskilka standing straight and calmly surveying the situation. He trotted on 150 yards to a small, gutted building near the Wolmi causeway. There he met his executive officer, 1st Lieut. Gilbert R. Hershey (son of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey). "They all got ashore fine, skipper," reported Hershey...