Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It is definite, however, that when these advanced course students are called to active duty, as enlisted reservists or voluntary inductees, their expenses for food, clothing, and shelter will be borne by the government and they will be given the pay of enlisted men of the Army.
> In Portland the supply of meat averaged out to only 8 oz. of meat per person, instead of the 2½ lb. a week the Government set as a voluntary ration. Six Portland packing plants had to stop operations for lack of supply.
Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, after a day spent conferring with Petroleum Czar Ickes in Washington, where offices are comfortably warm (see p. 22), returned to icy Boston determined to invoke his emergency war powers, if necessary, to force conversion. His first action last week was to proclaim a voluntary...
"I know that no political unit nor national cohesion can continue to exist which is not supported by the voluntary acceptance and the faith of the great majority of the citizenry."
The Fund's conclusion: Negroes' health needs "cannot be met by the Fund or by any voluntary organization. . . . Further progress must rest with the public."