Word: defers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Draft boards are not bound to defer students on the basis of the test or class ranking. The American Council on Education complained this week that some boards were showing prejudice against college students, classifying them 1-A regardless of rankings or test scores...
...State House has finally come out with a sensible approach to this year's glut of bills to curb Communism. The Joint Committee on Rules recently urged the Legislature to defer all this legislation for a year of study. If the House does not push through the Ober Law Bill as the substitute for the Rules Committee's suggestion--the loyalty oath bills, the teacher control bills, and the bill to outlaw Communism will probably die a quite death...
Concluded Fulbright: "It may be, of course, that General MacArthur is right, and the whole world is wrong." As for himself, he preferred to defer to the judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...draft bill stands now, individual draft boards have the say as to which students will be drafted and which deferred. Class standing and scores on the special deferment test are to be taken into account, but are not to be binding on local decisions. This, the legislators reason, will keep non-students happy because they will know that the government is not making one group of men ineligible for the draft, and it will enable local boards to defer students on some sort of objective basis...
Summerall said that certain high-ranking students will be notified that they have been deferred about May 1, but they will not sign their agreements until the first week of June. He can not tell how many he will defer until he learns more complete grades...