Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great setback to our bipartisan foreign policy." The reciprocal trade agreements? "I think the reciprocal trade act should be extended [for three years]. The draft? "I should have been much happier [with] universal military training . . . [But] if Congress believes that the time is here to have conscription . . . I'm for it and I'm willing that my boys should take their place...
...which was secretly submitted to Congress at the start of the current session is even stronger: it permits the Executive to declare a state of emergency and to draft every individual and every enterprise into service and make them subject to military law. In a nation that hasn't fought a war for 70 years, this law can only be interpreted as a device for maintaining civil order...
With the coming of war, Buchman's fortunes and following diminished somewhat. Possible reasons: M.R.A. workers' requests for draft exemptions, and publicity given to Buchman's famed outburst (in 1936) thanking heaven "for a man like Adolf Hitler...
Millions of U.S. men, up before draft examiners in World War I and II, had their hearing tested by one simple method. The tester stood them against a wall, backed away 20 feet, started speaking in a low conversational tone, walked toward them, asked them to indicate when they could hear what he was saying. Does this test-which the Army, the Navy and the Veterans Administration still use-prove anything? No, says Dr. Aram Glorig, director of aural rehabilitation at the Army Medical Center in Washington...
...Test Runs. Vandenberg's backstage strategists want the nomination to come as a real draft. They had not turned a campaign wheel and did not intend to; but their man was climbing steadily in public popularity. Last week they counted up the nominations of college and university mock conventions,* found that the Senator was far ahead of the field...