Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After only three months of inductions under the new draft law, the armed services had an embarrassing confession to make: they had already reached the 1950 budget ceiling of 1,616,000 officers and men.* There would be no need for any draftees in February and March, and no room for them...
...hammer out the terms of the Balfour Declaration which promised to help the Jews establish a national home in Palestine. His enemies were chiefly the English assimilationist Jews, led by Lord Edwin Montagu. Says Weizmann: "There cannot be the slightest doubt that without outside interference-entirely from Jews -the draft would have been accepted . . . substantially as we submitted...
Died. Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, 81, onetime Japanese Navy Minister (militarists forced him to resign after he helped draft the 1930 London Naval Treaty limiting Japanese sea power); of cancer; in Tokyo...
...would the Committee on Admissions know enough about students in their early years of college to grant even conditional admissions, he added. Worst of all, Burwell said, the character of the profession may be harmed by men who enter it motivated primarily by a desire to avoid the draft...
Under the present entrance system, which will remain in effect, only these men who are ready to enter medical school next fall will be referred to the draft board as eligible for draft deferment under Memorandum Seven...