Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western envoys again meet Stalin and receive his personal draft of a directive to the Allied military governors in Berlin. This provides for lifting the blockade, and for circulation in Berlin of the Russian mark under four-power control. All this is subject to agreement, by the military governors, upon the "practical implementation" of the vaguely worded Moscow "agreement in principle...
...with the U.S. at war, DiMaggio made up his mind to join up. He was 28 and married, and his draft board had classified him in 3-A. He went in voluntarily, became Private J. DiMaggio, U.S. Army Air Forces. In the Air Forces, he put in three years' service in the physical training program for flight cadets. He rose to staff sergeant. Joe had one hitch in Hawaii during 1944; otherwise he was not overseas. He had a chance to play in a couple of exhibition games, entertaining troops, but that was all the baseball...
...present draft law is "unfair" President Conant charged Saturday, urging that the Selective Service Act "be drastically changed by the new Congress." But he added that any attempt to obtain exemptions for college students "would be grossly unfair and socially unwise...
President Conant rejected any plan to exempt immediately all college students, claiming that accidents of family finance and geography are larger determinants of who goes to college today. "And no one wants to turn out educational institutions into draft establishments...
Several factors have combined to drive the number of men living in the College above last year's all-time peak: the graduation of many married students formerly living outside the College, the invulnerability of men for draft during their current year, and the discontinuance of enforced commuting. Coupled with less important changes such as the drop in the mortality rate, these shifts have brought about temporary housing of Freshman in the gym and placed extra men in rooms throughout the College...