Word: mcdermott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JAMES MCDERMOTT...
...store, an executive of a firm making babies' bonnets, the manager of a retail linoleum store, an advertising production executive, a stylist for a textile firm. One board gave occupational deferments to an average of one in 191 registrants; another deferred one in 18. Meanwhile Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, supervisor of the New York City area, instructed his boards to consider deferments even for men married after registration day, unless it could be shown that they went to the altar to escape the Army...
...Twenty students at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City announced that they would refuse to register (the law requires theological students to register, exempts them from service). Tough, testy Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, the local draft director, promptly threatened to jail...
...Most commuters may register near their city offices or at home. But in New York City Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, local draft director, has ruled that they must register in their home precincts...
...Conference Press Chief Count Nicolas del Rivero, brother of Falangist Strong Man Jose Ignacio Rivero. Behind a desk in his eighth-floor Nacional Hotel office, Secretary Hull received U. S. correspondents, biting the plastic rim of his spectacles, answering questions until his growing hoarseness forced Press Chief Mike McDermott to call...