Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abrams indicated that letters would be in the mail tomorrow requesting appointments during vacation with Secretary of the Air Force Talbott, Draft Director Hanna, and the heads of the Air Force reserve officers program and Air University...
...Light. What happened next has now largely been told in biting bureaucratese in the Army's report released last week (see box). Roy Cohn accepted Dave Schine's draft as a personal challenge. He enlisted McCarthy's aid in trying to get Schine a commission. When this failed, Roy personally extended the long arm of the U.S. Senate to protect Dave during his enlisted service...
...McCarthy, when alone with Adams or Stevens, urged them to draft Schine and give him no special privilege...
Senator McCarthy further said he hoped nothing would occur to stop the ordinary processes of the draft procedures in Schine's case...
Sunday's ratio was about the same, and the reporting no more accurate. In summing up the files McCarthy released, the Tribune said, ". . . some members of McCarthy's staff believed Schine would never have been drafted into the army except that 'extreme left wing writers' started 'screaming about his case'." The file cited said nothing of the draft, but deplored Schine's status quo as a private...