Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked around the Senate. His colleagues were listening indifferently. Their arguments were fixed, their minds made up: they were going to pass (58-10-5) the bill lowering the draft age to 18-but they were also going to pass (39-to-31) Democrat W. Lee O'Daniel's amendment that 18- and 19-year-olds must have a year's training before going to battlefronts abroad...
...DANIEL FETLER...
Congress is still playing politics with the draft act. The O'Daniel amendment, disqualifying teenagers from overseas service until the completion of a year's training, can only complicate the organization of fighting units. The facts of war will not be altered; American "babes" will still be torn from their high-school teachers' arms. A few more Texas mothers may vote for "Pappy," but politics not military necessity will have called the tune. As amended the bill remains an election measure, proving to the people that Congress is allowing the Army requisite manpower, but making the proof so painless that...
...Ferreyra. Both will work at the Arnold Arboretum. Other appointees are Richard P. Scowcroft, A.M. Harvard '41, John F. Leisher, A.M. Harvard '42, who will be teaching fellows in English, Andreas G. Papandreou, of Athens, Greece, and John A. Stovel, of Canada, both of whom will teach economics, and Daniel L. Horowitz, who will serve as lecturer on Industrial Relations...
...Dear Blue Hills. Daniel Boone was a kinsman ("a mighty poor provider," his wife said). Another Robertson founded Nashville. Others have carried the Twelve Mile Valley customs into the Texas Panhandle and Montana. But as rovers they are permanently homesick. There are old letters in the Robertson trunks as touching as a poem by Burns: "Oh, I long for a sight of the dear mountains. My mind wanders all the time back to lovely Keowee Valley. Oh, the dear cotton fields. Oh, the dear blue hills...