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Definition of Draft board
1. Noun. A board to select personnel for involuntary military service.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Draft Board
Literary usage of Draft board
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War-time Strikes and Their Adjustment by Alexander M. Bing (1921)
"a strike would notify the draft board that the men had left his employment. ...
Both employer and draft board must have known that industrial draft ..."
2. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"Order to draft board to Show Cause. [Caption.] Upon the bill of complaint and
summons in this action, and the depositions of Alexander Angelus, John Angelus ..."
3. Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and by Jacob Piatt Dunn (1919)
"... draft board Division No. 3 at Evansville. Doctor Cleveland represented the
Sixth Ward of Evansville in the City Council for ten years and nine months, ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1893)
"Attends Assembly. On Committee of Privileges and Elections. On Committee of
Propositions and Grievances. II. On Committee to draft Board of War bill. ..."
5. Military Laws of the United States by United States (1921)
"A Unit-d States district court has no jurisdiction to review on habeas corpus
action of a local or district draft board, acting under the selective service ..."
6. Proceedings by Organization of American Historians (1920)
"Records of the state draft board. A joint resolution has been introduced in the
house of representatives by Representative Smith of Michigan, providing for ..."
7. A History of Wayne County in the World War and in the Wars of the Past by Edward Harry Hauenstein (1919)
"None of them refused to obey orders from the Local draft board, and while they
adhered to their faith and requested recognition as non-combatants, ..."