Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Conant lashed out against the present draft deferment policy yesterday, terming it symptomatic of the unwillingness of the American people to face up to the threats to our security--to face up to the long-term implications of a divided world in an atomic...
...Army may refuse draft deferments to 15 percent of the freshmen members of R.O.T.C., Lt. Col. Trevor N. DuPuy, professor of Military Science, announced yesterday...
This done they set sail for Boston, via the Gulf Stream. But off Florida, a bitter north caster slammed into the Stream, making progress just about impossible. Davis headed westward to the Inland Waterway. The average depth of the waterway is eight feet; the Miru's draft is eight feet. These two factors caused 13 groundings on the way, one of which left the Miru high and dry until a new tide...
...cowardly than Yalies. "It is easy to exaggerate opposition to going into the army," he says. "The impression given by the survey, at Harvard and nationally, is more of a lack of enthusiasm for military service than outright opposition to the idea. I doubt very much if any wholesale draft-dodging will come...
Averell Harriman might have been playing coy and waiting for the New York Democrats to draft him; on the other hand, he may be betting on a Stevenson victory and an appointment as Secretary of State. In any case, by sitting back and letting John Cashmore snatch the senatorial nomination, Harriman assured Irving M. Ives, the incumbent, of a victory. For, during the past six years, Ives, a strong advocate of civil rights and a bi-partisan foreign policy, has made himself all things to New York's heterogeneous voting population. A man of Harriman's national prestige might have...