Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atmosphere scented with name-calling and heckling by about 100 UMT supporters, a group of 350 students rallied at Sanders Theater Saturday to demonstrate opposition to President Truman's proposed draft legislation. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard Committee for Wallace...
Truman proposed a peacetime draft, prompt passage of universal military training and immediate positive action on the European Recovery Program...
Straughton Gettier 1DV, was delegated to submit a draft for the possible constitution of the enlarged group. His report will attempt to define the aims, purposes and functions of the Association, preliminary to a bid for official University recognition...
...Brazen Scheme." This first shot fired, Democratic politicians manned the ramparts all over Dixie. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank said that his state would follow Virginia's lead. His colleague, Senator Olin Johnston, proposed that the Democrats draft Secretary of State George Marshall. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan came out for Harry Byrd. Even at the price of defeat, Georgia's Senator Walter George looked forward to a party shakeup after the election, with Southerners taking a stronger grip...
...sedate old Murray Hill house was built in 1863, its walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...