Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congress is so seared of universal military training in peacetime that "there isn't a chance in the world" it will extend the draft law next year, according to top members of the House Armed Services Committee...
Representative Melvin Price (D-Ill.) told the CRIMSON yesterday that "it is very difficult to get Congress to pass a draft act during peacetime. It was very difficult to get the present law passed two years ago, and it will be impossible now that there is no need...
Many of us who were once in the Council were sorry to see it become an almost wholly elected group. We felt the Council was strengthened by being able to draft capable men to serve on it, most of whom would never have sought or achieved elective office. I think it fair and realistic to say that many of the talented men at Harvard haven't any great interest in student politics. To say they should have, and organize the Council as if they did, is to beg the issue; and that is what the present Constitution does...
...month the shooting of the outdoor sequences clicked along without a hitch. When the moviemakers went back to London to finish some indoor shots, the squires of Much Wenlock finally holed up to have a look at Mrs. Webb's novel. What they read led them to draft a hasty letter to the potent British Field Sports Society...
...hours after the jury in Manhattan's Communist trial had brought in its verdict of guilty Duncan Norton-Taylor, National Affairs writer and one of TIME's senior editors, had a two-hour interview with Judge Harold Medina in his chambers. Two days later he finished his draft of the Medina cover story (TIME, Oct. 24) and sent it along to the editors. It was about (he has lost actual count) his 50th TIME cover story-a record that no other TIME writer can claim...