Word: defer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington report quoted law-makers as saying they expect the new draft policy to defer almost all freshmen next year; all sophomores who were in the first half of their class their first year; juniors in the upper two-thirds their second year; and seniors in the upper three-fourths their third year...
...evidence of this, he cited a statement made last night by Maj. General Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, that President Truman was considering an executive order to defer all college students with I.Q.'s of 120 or better...
...rapidity with which the armed services have been filling their quotas, and rumors from Washington that the President may defer up to 70 percent of the students now in college, are behind the optimism...
...Massachusetts state board has recommended that local boards defer college students on three bases, Feeney said. They must have completed their freshman year, be in the upper half of their class, and intend to continue their college career. He added that the local boards were not obligated to issue deferments for these reasons...
...expected, the Administration is looking over the various plans for student deferment which came before the Senate and House Committees. Truman may not, of course, announce his system immediately despite the pressure on him to do so. He has to act courteously towards Congress which might not like to have him issuing orders under a law not yet passed. Nor might the Congress enjoy seeing the Chief Executive defer huge lumps of manpower while it debates his request for a greater standing army...