Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signed an order freeing members of the military Ready Reserve (including National Guardsmen) from the draft. Previously, draft-age (18½ to 26) Ready Reservists were subject to call if they had not had two years of active duty under Selective Service. The order came on the advice of Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, who told the President that recent small monthly draft calls have left available a large pool of non-reserve men for 1-A classification...
...Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as Japan's new Conservative Premier got set to make his first official call on Washington this week: "This visit is very important and comes at a formative period in the relations between our two countries. There is a growing feeling in Japan that a new stage is approaching in [its] relations to the rest of the world, and I hope and believe that we will have a chance to talk that over constructively...
Ranged against the President and the Republican and Democratic leadership in the Senate roll-call vote on foreign aid last week were 18 Democrats and eleven Republicans. The roll call of naysayers...
...bright idea. Allen had started as a reporter on the Birmingham News, had later read with interest Strickland's detailed accounts of corruption in Phenix City. As far as he knew, Strickland's face was unknown in Jefferson Parish, and after a quick phone call to News Managing Editor Vincent Townsend, Allen borrowed Strickland for a couple of weeks...
...down to the finish line with a recent interview with Paris' rocketing young Bernard Buffet, who in the last decade has shot from abject poverty to Rolls-Royce status. Such luck was rare in the old days, M.G.M. recalls. Looking back over the past, he says: "What they call la belle epoque was the most hostile and hardest time that ever existed. They are always talking of the good old days. But in those days painters were starving. Nowadays a painter with a bit of talent is driving a car-and he deserves...