Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Why not tell all that is going on in Washington at the Congressional hearings on the draft bill? Why not disclose that Army leaders admit they have been getting more than their quota on a voluntary three-year enlistment and have a waiting list? Why not tell that the compromise...
Across Sheridan's desk last week had flowed plenty of evidence of the slowness of U. S. rearmament-Congressional delay on the conscription bill, inadequate voluntary recruiting rate, the molasses flow of turning peacetime industrial production into production for war. George Marshall, fluent, unhurried, talked frankly.
¶The Communist Party was of course against U. S. conscription. So, naturally enough, was the American Youth Congress, whose loud lobbyists visited Capitol Hill in mass. A. Y. C.'s most potent friend is Eleanor Roosevelt, who surprised readers of her column last month by gently slapping her...
What can be done by voluntary cooperation, well oiled with cash, was demonstrated last week. RFC announced a loan of $92,000,000 to Wright Aeronautical Corp., which will build a new aircraft engine plant near Cincinnati, upping U. S. engine capacity by 12,000 per year. In return Wright...
For the present no sons will go to camp under the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. Hearings were postponed as Congress waited for word from Franklin Roosevelt, who approves the motives of M. T. C. A. but is pondering with Laborite Sidney Hillman an independent scheme for the voluntary training of 460...