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...fathers may be deferred because of "extreme hardship." Draft Director Hershey described a sample case: "... A man with two or three children, whose wife is an invalid and who has nothing except what he earns, and who . . . has to take care of his wife and children . . . get the meals and wash the children's clothes...
Major General Lewis B. Hershey took a deep breath and wrote it for the record: general induction of U.S. fathers will have to begin in August. Long expected, the announcement was forced last week by varied circumstances: draft quotas were running slightly behind schedule; the armed forces were still far short of their 11,000,000 goal; Congress was restively toying with bills to limit the draft...
Having dependents is no longer enough to get a man deferment from military service. Before a Senate subcommittee, Draft Director Major General Lewis B. Hershey testified that the pool of unmarried men eligible for the Army and Navy "was practically exhausted...
...load on the national economy that a total armed force of 11,100,000 will bring to the U.S., another generally unforeseen burden was added last week. Selective Service's Major General Lewis B. Hershey and Colonel Lewis Sanders hefted it for a Congressional Committee. Their prediction: to maintain itself at top strength, the U.S. will have to draft not 11,100,000, but 12,000,000. Reason: this year, at home and abroad, there will be 900,000 casualties...
Died. Colonel Clinton Roy Dickinson, 54, longtime chief editorialist of the advertising world, short-story writer, for the past year executive assistant to Draft Director Hershey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Through advertising's No. 1 tradepaper, Printers' Ink, Editor Dickinson plumped for honesty, dignity, decency in advertising, was an influential booster and lambaster...