Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School Dean Erwin N. Griswold has called for a peace-time draft program which would by-pass youths of 18, and singled out the School's foreign students for special praise in his annual report...
Selective Service officials announced Saturday that the July draft call will be 20 percent higher than the average for the last five months, but denied that the hike had any connection with the current crisis in Indochina...
...with professional training were rare in the community. Since Abraham Chasanow had earned a degree at Washington College of Law night school, he was put on six assorted committees. Lawyer Chasanow also served on the draft board, the Health Association, the Citizens' Association. He took part in the P.T.A., the Lions, the Jewish Community Center. He did legal work for the town's 1,000-unit expansion in 1941 and contributed to the local newspaper, the Cooperator, of which his wife Helen was once church editor. The Chasanows also raised four children...
...year's organization, like its predecessor, maintains a policy that its members must be, or intend to be, conscientious objectors to military service. But some of the members object to fighting on moral, rather than religious, grounds and have thus been in trouble with their selective service boards. Local draft boards may classify men "I.O." only if they have religious basis for objection...
Latin America, currently buying from the U.S. at a $3.1 billion-a-year clip, is paying for its purchases with exemplary promptness. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that in March the current draft indebtedness of Latin importers of U.S. goods fell to a nominal $99.9 million. In the seven years that the bank has kept records, that figure was matched only once before: in the Korean war month of September 1950. It was the eleventh successive monthly decline in such commercial arrears, which now amount to about a third of the total outstanding a year...