Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Candler Cobb, head of the New York City Selective Service System, yesterday said the Lubell twins, Jonathan W. and David L., will not have their draft deferments canceled immediately...
...taste in suggesting Mrs. Roosevelt disporting with seven skimpy gauzes. But even this is symbolic. Mrs. Roosevelt is unburdening herself of her U.N. duties, with a red veil suggesting the Russian problem and so on. By the time she has reached the French situation, there is only the draft left to consider...
Newby emphasized that there are many companies which are willing and even eager to take students who are draft eligible. He said most students who will be drafted will probably be drafted in August or September, so there is time for them to enroll in a training program before then...
Hannah added that the "hard and unpleasant" facts of the draft situation are a spur to the Defense Department, to find better ways of using the country's military manpower. Studies are under way toward this end, he said...
Charles E, Wilson, Secretary of Defense, indicated recently that every effort would be made to reduce the military's manpower requirements without endangering the national security. One aim is to level off the monthly draft quotas to a lower and more constant rate...