Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RESERVES. Reservists and National Guardsmen, who should be a constant source of Regular Army material, were unjustly handled during the Korean emergency, because of badly organized reserve records. Men with large families and promising careers found themselves suddenly fighting in Korea, while unmarried students or young married men of draft age got easy deferments. Tens of thousands of reservists, exasperated by' this system, have severed their connections with all reserve programs...
...proposed amendments, he said, were not a rough working draft, as the Administration argues, but had actually been on their way to Congress in final form on the very day Senator Robert A. Taft died...
...Army has recommended that draft calls be raised to about 35,000 a month starting in January, a Washington spokesman said yesterday...
...Draft calls have been near 23,000 monthly since July. It was originally believed that they would stay at that rate until July, 1954, when they would be raised to 45,000 a month...
...jump next year comes from the heavy turnover of Army personnel every other year due to the two-year draft term...