Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gearing our entire economy, even dairy-farming, to our military effort, have become unfit for such men as these . . . hadn't we better examine ourselves and see if we haven't, without knowing it, developed the contagious moral leprosy of those we claim we are fighting against...
Hershey was facing an uncompromising set of facts. Once they reached the 3,000,000-man level the armed forces would need 750,000 men a year to stay there. Every year, only 1,100,000 turn 18, and 30% of them are predictably physically unfit. Left to the draft: an annual crop of approximately 800,000 boys from which to raise the 750,000 needed...
...Selective Service Lewis Hershey urged that the term of service be increased from 21 months to 30, that World War II veterans under 26 be included in the draft, that rules be changed in order to rope in more men claiming exemptions and men previously judged to be unfit. This was not a temporary program, Hershey said, but a program for an "indefinite" period, perhaps for "a generation...
Frankly ... In Jamaica, N.Y., Judge Joseph M. Conroy listened patiently while Donald and Mary McClay each recited reasons why the other was unfit to have custody of their two-year-old daughter, then gave his decision: "Neither of you will get custody. In my opinion you both stink...
...jury of his constitutional peers had acquitted Dr. Hermann N. Sander of murder, but a jury of his professional peers last week decided that he was unfit to practice medicine. Meeting in the New Hampshire State House at Concord, the State Board of Registration in Medicine "indefinitely" suspended Dr. Sander from medical practice in the state by revoking his license, with the proviso that after two months he might apply for reinstatement...