Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructions for filling out the draft questionnaire in 1917 permitted a married man to state that he had a child if his wife was pregnant. I was a member of a county draft advisory board, and so advised a friend whose marriage took place later than a certain date after which marriage was considered a means of evading or deferring military service. His statement that he had a child because his wife was pregnant, was challenged, but it stood up, and he got a deferred classification because of offspring, not spouse...
Further, not a member of your staff is worthy of cleaning the shoes of Father Coughlin, in fact, any one of them would befoul the shoes beyond cleaning...
...pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them, California's Jerry Voorhis and Harry Sheppard, turned up to read the skeptical Chairman Doughton prepared statements on the wonders of the General Welfare Act. The federation's nominal president, the Rev. Mr. Thomas E. Boorde, a member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, "which speaks for 4,121,000 Southern Baptists," declared: "The Church must be up and about its Father's business." Read to the committee was a long testimonial to the General Welfare Act by Minnesota Packer George A. Hormel, whose...
...elected Leftist Bose, by a vote of 1,575-to-1,376. Saint Gandhi took his defeat hard. He charged fraud, claimed the Congress was fast becoming a "corrupt organization" and intimated that his supporters might bolt the Congress organization. The Mahatma himself is not a dues-paying member of Congress. To President Bose his re-election was simply a victory for anti-federation...
...former Harvard ice stars are represented on the visiting aggregation, Fred Moseley and George Roberts. Moseley, who is captaining the St. Nicks this year and centering their first line, is also a former Harvard hockey captain. Roberts, a member of last year's Varsity, will be playing his first game for the St. Nicks...