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Brigadier General Lewis Blaine Hershey, No. 2 man in the draft setup, thought he knew the answer to the question: "How's the nation's health?" Said he: "The fact remains that while we may be no worse now than 24 years ago we seem certainly to be no better. . . . We are physically in a condition of which we nationally should be thoroughly ashamed...
...there was little doubt that the President had his Dutch up at last when he yanked out one of the biggest clubs in his closet. As 2,000 C.I.O. workers walked out of the Aluminum Co. of America plant in Cleveland, an order came from Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, deputy director of the draft, that henceforth "the citizen who has been deferred because of the job he is performing in the national defense program cannot expect to retain the status of deferment when he ceases to work on the job for which he was deferred." In World...
Died. Frank E. Crater, 79, father of famously missing New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater; in Hershey...
...local boards follow the recommendation of Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, Deputy Director of Selective Service, they will give blanket deferment to all students above the class of sophomore...
...March 7, Lewis B. Hershey, Deputy Director of the Selective Service System, issued an official ruling to all State Directors permitting the local boards to "defer such a registrant in Class 1-A for a relatively short period pending such examination." This solved the problem for most of the students...