In 1940, with the outbreak of World War II he tried to enlist with the Canadian Army, but was refused on medical grounds . " He volunteered to join the Canadian Army as soon as this war broke out, and was turned down for flat feet or hammer toes or perhaps, more seriously, for his reputation as one of the most obstreperous leaders of Canada's unemployed ."
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Tight shoes also can produce foot deformities in the toes, and can lead to symptoms from deformities that might otherwise go unnoticed, said Dr . Gary Jolly, president of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, who practices in Hartford, Conn . People have a genetic predisposition toward bunions and hammer toe deformities, he said, but shoes are often the factor that turn conditions into problems.
