Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman worked hard on his eighth and last message to Congress on the State of the Union, determined to speak his valedictory in the calm, reasoning voice of the statesman. At 11:15 one night last week-late by Truman standards-he finished going over the fifth draft, left his speechwriters working well past midnight to buff the rough edges...
When the Nazis were about to draft young Paul into a labor corps (rebuilding bomb-prone factories), Skoda assured the head of Vienna's Academy of Music that a (fictitious) letter of recommendation was coming "any day" from Hermann Goring; Paul was accepted by the academy. Before the next summons came, Paul was already lodged with a friendly farmworkers' corps near Vienna; he did most of his digging in the scores of Mozart and Beethoven. He gave his first recital in Vienna four years ago, then gradually began to make his name as a soloist and chamber musician...
...even these critics there are no real "anti-Conautites" on the faculty here or any other place enter their objections while at the same time pointing out the magnificent prosperity he brought here. By his forceful leadership in such national issues as the draft, the atomic bomb, intervention in World War II, and such educational problems as private schools, general education, he attracted men and money without huckstering or compromising his own ideas of the president's duty...
Under Conant's proposal, the army would draft all men at 18, or when they complete high school, with deferments for no one. Men normally assigned to 4-F category would be taken into the military for the two year period to do clerical or other non-combat work...
...lively two-hour discussion, the group freely criticized the Peace Council proposal for "an immediate cease-fire in Korea, not contingent on settlement of the prisoner of war issue, but implemented by the agreements made by the negotiators in the draft armistice...