Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fevered pitch of the early months in 1941 did little to help the course reduction program. While students pleaded "Pass me, please!" on their blue books, the draft daily carried away its share of tutors. Pressure was on to get a degree and get it quick. As it became increasingly difficult to patch the system with temporary measures, and to hold uniform control, the Faculty voted in 1942 to give the power of course reduction to the individual departments by allowing credit for tutorial...
...Draft calls will soar to 28,000 a month this summer, and the Air Force, for the first time, may get a share of the draftee manpower pool, according to Selective Service officials in Washington last night...
...soon may be drafting for the Air Force and Marines," warned Col. William G. McNamara, Selective Service Information Officer. McNamara was contacted by the CRIMSON after the Boston American headlines yesterday reading. "Draft Ends Soon." The paper's article based its optimism on a reduction in the size of the Army and its partial replacement by a stronger Air Force...
...July quota is 24,000, and we expect to induct 28,000 men a month before the summer is over," McNamara continued. "To assume that a smaller defense role by the Army means the end of the draft," he contended, "omits many other important considerations...
John Hannah, Assistant Secretary of Defense, has repeatedly stated that the draft must continue almost indefinitely if we are to maintain a 3,000 man defense force. Speaking on the "Youth Wants to Know" TV show last month, he stated that "we have, in effect, UMT now." With only 150,000 men coming of age each year fit for military service, Hannah has called it impossible to abandon and draft even for an all-out UMT program, until 1960 at the earliest...