Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encourage more doctors to join the Regular Army, Washington announced that medics who formerly signed up for an indefinite term may now return to civilian life after three years, if they choose. The new rule will not affect the doctors the Army has to draft...
...million potential draftees back home by announcing that the U.S. would maintain its present strength in Korea for at least "several years." In Washington, the Defense Department was more specific: the monthly quota of 23,000 draftees will probably be maintained through 1953. Then, barring drastic international crisis, draft quotas will drop to 19,000 per month during the first half of 1954. But beginning in July 1954, the number will jump to 45,000 a month. Reasons: 1) since the big buildup of 1951, the Army has faced a biennial wave of discharges, and the wave will hit next...
...World War I. The causes were various. Kinsey cites the writings of Havelock Ellis, one of the first scientists to combine psychology and biology, and Sigmund Freud, who put the spotlight on sex as a cause of human behavior. Of more immediate effect on the U.S. was the draft Army, which threw together men from all walks of life and exposed 2,000,000 of them, overseas, to standards more sophisticated than their own. When they came home, they found U.S. women largely emancipated and close to winning the vote. There were other causes to which Kinsey pays little...
...tour of Europe in 1951, Herter met Dwight Eisenhower in Paris and decided Eisenhower was the kind of man for Herter's kind of Republican Party. The appointment was supposed to last five minutes, and Herter blurted: "If you think there's going to be an Eisenhower draft at the convention, coming from the grass roots, you're very much mistaken . . . You've got to let your friends know where you stand . . ." Ike did not commit himself, but he invited Herter to lunch, put him on a "Chris" basis, and spent two hours discussing politics after...
...Immigration Department because he followed thrice-married Rita to Hawaii last May. Possible punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita. A "technicality," retorted Haymes, who learned that both his estranged wife and Rita were, as the tabloids said, "ready to stand...