Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is the largest quota to be called under the peacetime military training program. Draft officials has credited the large proportion to the high rejection rate of the peacetime draft...
Screenings and physical examinations for the state's 550-man draft quota are slated to begin Wednesday, December 1, with selectees to be inducted in January. The Cambridge draft board has announced that of 50 men expected to come up for examinations, about 20 will be from the University. If accepted they will probably be deferred until June...
...newly-formed Young Progressives of Harvard lashed out at the peacetime draft last night at their formal meeting in Harvard Hall. The group also adopted a program of participation in College activities, marking for special attention drives for lowering; tuition rates and increasing the number of scholarships available to Negro students...
...quick, sharp campaign of it. On Feb. 7 of this year, in his quarters at Fort Myer, Va., he started to dictate at a clip of 5,000 words a day, pacing steadily as he talked. After his shorthand expert had left for the day, he corrected the first draft, began to add to it in longhand, and soon found himself working on until 3 a.m. By March 24-46 days later-he was finished...
Glowing with hangdog good cheer, like a saloon bouncer turned babysitter, the U.S. Army bravely launched itself, last week, into a kind of ordeal by politeness. The first men of the new peacetime draft began reporting for induction, and the ground forces, by fiat from the Highest Brass, were duty bound to welcome them with smiles...