Henry Stimson prepares to draw first number in 1940 peacetime military draft in Washington, DC

Montage men with fishbowl and capsules bearing numbers during drawing of first draft numbers in 1940 / US President Franklin Roosevelt and other officials look on as retired Col. C. R. Morris ties a blindfold on US Secretary of War Henry Stimson as flashbulbs pop; Morris had also tied a blindfold on Sec. Newton Baker during the 1917 draft / audience looks on / Morris adjusts blindfold on Stimson / from Greatest Headlines of the Century series