Word: induction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, there are 1.2 million 19-year-olds who never even saw a draft board. This group alone is twice as large as the number of men the Army may induct...
...heart of the measure was the authority to induct men between 18 and 45 whenever voluntary enlistments failed to provide the manpower for the postwar Army (1,070,000), Navy (558,000), and Marine Corps (108,000). If the House swung into line, the Army would be able to refill its manpower pool with a monthly average of 40,000 18-year-olds and 10,000 19-year-olds through Selective Service. But the House, which had twice shown its determination to keep teen-agers draft-free, still had its back...
...Roosevelt proposal was made in his message vetoing the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill, later passed over his veto. The Roosevelt language: "I recommend that the Selective Service Act be amended so that persons may be inducted into noncombat military service up to the age of 65 years. This will enable us to induct into military service all persons who engage in strikes or Stoppages or other interruptions of work in plants in possession of the United States...
Differences. On that day, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1940, Gone With the Wind was playing and draft boards were getting ready to induct their first man. Franklin Roosevelt had just signed a $1½ billion defense appropriation, and was about to light into Wendell Willkie. He was still an energetic and abidingly confident man. His guests, even when they disagreed with him, found him irresistibly full of good humor...
...virtue of this mandate, I ... do induct, install and enthrone you, Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey . . . into the archbishopric and the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury...