Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western envoys vainly try to pin Molotov down to a draft agreement incorporating the talks with Stalin...
...major controversial issues, policy is determined by a majority vote of the entire staff. In the past, such issues have been the Truman Doctrine, and Truman's request for a draft. Another will be the choice of a presidential candidate...
...August the Army took in about 45,000 volunteers-some 15,000 over its monthly quota. As a result-and until more training camps could be readied—the Army cut its first draft calls down to 10,000 for November and will probably call about 20,000 in December. As of Sept. 1, there were 1,504,357 men in the armed forces (the goal...
Associated Dean Robert B. Watson '37 blamed the lag in Selective Service operations for the oversized student body. The draft has failed to call up the extra men admitted last spring to keep the Class of '52 at a normal level, he said...
Besides the delaying the draft, two other reasons for the housing squeeze were cited by Watson...