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Diplomats in the Selective Service office found a way out of this mare's-nest. Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, the deputy director of Selective Service, solemnly issued a ruling that women could indeed be appointed to draft advisory boards. These boards (usually three male lawyers) help registrants to fill out complex questionnaires, tell draftees about their rights and duties. Pay: none, except in women's rights...
...horse population (fallen from 20,000,000 in 1920 to 10,000,000 in 1940) as to improve the breed. Army stallions are lent to farmers, ranchers, breeders who have proper equipment and agree not to allow the promiscuity of pasture breeding. These agents of Remount charge mare owners $10 a foal: $5 at the time of service, $5 when the mare delivers the colt. Some agents, such as C. C. Townsend near San Angelo (who has five Government stallions) accept payment in chickens, eggs, or a calf. Some of the studs are aristocrats, the get of such lords...
...years, to save itself from the cubs it has raised in the mines of the North and the mills of Manchester. But your duty is here, to lay the old Bald-Head quietly to rest, to deck its young with bright feathers and make strong their wings for flight. Mare Jaffe...
...fictional sisters from Columbus, Ohio move into a characteristic Greenwich Village mare's nest-a furnished, one-room, basement apartment (with partitioned bathroom) suggesting a cross between a Gothic crypt and a rummage sale...
Great Britain's fleet at Gibraltar welcomed the assignment last week of escorting three supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea") but which cartoonists now label Nightmare Nostrum. It was known that what was left of the Italian Navy after Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham's brilliant aerial-torpedo stab into its main base at Taranto (TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy...