Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Electrical Workers, meeting for their 13th annual convention in Manhattan, plowed straight down the Communist furrow, despite the gees and haws of the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president. By overwhelming majorities, the delegates denounced the draft as "part of big business' war against the American people"; condemned the Marshall Plan as a tool of Wall Street; re-elected all their Red-minded officers...
Across the land this week, the U.S. began registering its young men for a new draft-three, years and 16 days after the end of World War II. The first of 9½ million young men between 18 and 25 stood in patient lines. First to register were the 25-year-olds, who would also be the first to be inducted. Thereafter, eligible men would be called in order of age. Most veterans, married men, men with dependents, public officials, research students, farmers and many others would be deferred. As a starter, the Army asked...
Sergeant Alvin C. York, most celebrated U.S. hero of World War I and chairman of his local draft board during World War II, prepared to go back to work as chairman of his local board for the new draft...
...boys (and Mme. Pauker) through the required 58 votes. Once, one of his stooges forgot to raise his hand; Vishinsky nudged him: "Hey, pay attention." Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted "no" but was, from habit, listed as abstaining again. He rose to his last skirmish: "Mr. Chairman, there has been an error . . ." Vishinsky murmured impatiently: "All right, all right." Cannon sat down again...
When the first volume was completed, earnest young Scientist Ellerman submitted the draft of the entire proposed treatise to the British Museum. The honor of publication under museum auspices is a certain stamp of scientific recognition. With a scientist's pride, he did not consider using his own wealth to publish the book on his own. After he had chafed for four years, the museum printed it. The second volume came...