Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel Shinwell, former Laborite Minister of Defense, cheerfully proposed that Britain's draft period could be safely relaxed from two years to 18 months...
...committee of law students at Phillips Brooks House will help Greater Boston welfare organizations to draft proposed legal reforms...
Tedson J. Meyers 3L, chairman of the Law School Committee of P.B.H., stated, "Improvements discussed by civic organizations are too often dropped because they do not have the money to hire attorneys to draft ideas into concrete statutes which can be passed by legislatures." Last year the need for the new committee was pointed up by requests from the South End Planning Council for help in drafting health laws...
Edward A. French '54, who will go to trial as a draft dodger under the Selective Service Act, has just received word that the U.S. Attorney in his home state of Oregon has stated that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which permits him to be tried in Massachusetts, is unconstitutional. He will surrender French's files only on a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court...
Unless he can secure this writ, which will cost about $1,000, French said he must be sentenced in Oregon. Although he must plead guilty, French thinks he will got a shorter and pleasanter sentence here, where two "liberally enlightened" Massachusetts judges have previously favored draft dodgers...