Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration's strategy began to emerge. Southern Senators, who had wandered off the reservation, would be told that Harry Truman did not intend to be "vindictive." The Southerners could vote as they pleased, but any effort to thwart the majority's will by filibustering a bill to death (such as an anti-poll-tax measure) would be sternly punished by cutting off federal patronage...
Senator Millard E. Tydings (D.-- Md.), chairman of the committee, introduced the bill shortly after President Truman had urged passage of UMT in his "State of the Union" address...
...proposal provides for four months' training, followed by eight months in one of the reserve corps. Beyond this, however, there was no clear word today on how the bill would affect college students and on whether or not it would replace Selective Service...
However many Senators appear to favor UMT. In addition the bill has strong backing from such groups as the American Legion and from Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, who sees UMT as an answer to the nation's long-range military manpower problem...
Fate of the UMT bill may depend in part on the findings of a special 12-man committee appointed yesterday to study the adequacy of the National Guard and Organized Reserve Corps...