Word: induction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brushing aside all references to a nearly-filled capacity, military officials indicated that the army plans to induct 60,000 registrants every month after July 1. Only Harvard conscriptees who can be at all sure of deferment are the 59 already enrolled in Military Science and the Naval Science courses...
...York draft board last week protested "against Government officials allowing continuation of strikes and sabotage in industry while we induct men into service to give their all, perhaps their lives, at Army pay." A Georgia draft board had had the same indignant thought. Although there was a period of halfway quiet on the labor front, the public's wrath over labor disputes did not abate. How could people know that there might not be more of the same still coming? When was the Government going to do something about...
Last fall the H.A.A. squelched an attempt to induct drum majorettes into the band, so now Bernton looks to the Class of 1944 to give the band added dash...