Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue during the First World War was military preparedness. In March 1915, the Collegiate Anti-Militarism League was formed and it announced its opposition to all increases in American military strength. A number of students sent a letter to President Wilson in May supporting his isolationist stand, and denouncing blind or pyrotechnic patriotism...
...number of Harvard students sent a letter to President Wilson in May of 1915 supporting his isolationist stand, and denoucing blind or pyrotechnic patriotism...
...forever free from military service on the basis of mere luck would seem to put unnecessary-and possibly unwise-restrictions on presidential policymaking. As salty old Lieut. General Lewis Hershey, U.S. selective-service chief, said last week for the umteenth time: "I'm un willing to admit that blind chance is better than other methods-bad as they may sometimes be-for solving our manpower problems...
...Title 19, a little-publicized section contained in the Medicare act. It, too, will add to the U.S.'s new-patient load, for it extends existent federal programs-offering free health care to children under 21 of impoverished families and to adults between 21 and 65 who are blind or "disabled." Title 19 requires individual states to assume part of the cost, but seven states and Puerto Rico have already passed the necessary legislation...
...number of Harvard students sent a letter to President Wilson in May of 1915 supporting his isolationist stand, and denouncing blind or pyrotechnic patriotism. was at this time that the Senate began to discuss the Chamberlain Bill, calling for universal military service. Many Harvard organizations, including the Student Council and the CRIMSON, supported conscription, but pacifist organizations from several Eastern universities, including Harvard, sent delegations to the Senate committee which was hearing testimony on the Bill. Speaking for the International Polity Club, several Harvard students told the committee that the voluntary system of service had proved adequate and that...