Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant centered the majority of his talk around College affairs and Freshman problems, although he took time out to discuss the draft with brief remarks. In his main point he advised the students that in choosing professions they should be guided not so much by monetary factors as by their own natural leanings...
...draft is one cause for overcrowding, he added. The College expected to lose several hundred men this year and took more Freshmen, but no one will be drafted until June, and only four have volunteered...
...should he make any more promises? "Labor has its special problems," said Dewey. "But these problems have not been solved . . . by separating labor from the rest of America." He reminded labor that Republicans had voted for the Wagner Act, voted against Harry Truman's plan to draft the railroad strikers, that both parties had supported the Taft-Hartley...
...notebooks. By the use of an ingenious system of numbers and symbols he can turn to any scrap of material he needs in a matter of seconds. After he has written a chapter, he "lets it cool" for a month and then his revisions always "cut the first draft to pieces." After the fourth typing he sticks to what he has, unless he or his researcher, Dr. Gertrude Richards, belatedly turns up important new material...
...earlier draft of the report said, "The Committee still felt a Student Center, basically was not a proper form of War Memorial..." Axt effected passage of the amendment partially recognizing the value of a center...