Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kronenberger rarely takes notes during a performance, but occasionally jots down some lines he may want to use in his review. Writing in the dark, he finds, has its pitfalls, such as writing one line on top of another. Kronenberger always writes his first draft of a review in longhand, explains: "Writing in longhand works out better for the succinctness of the review. The typewriter either goes too fast or writes too much...
Early in his speech Ike struck at the Administration's labor record, said that in 1946, while he was Chief of Staff, he was directed to return to Washington from vacation to assume command of railroad strikers who were to be drafted. Said Ike: "With a bitter protest, I refused ... I was a soldier and not a strike breaker." (Next day Truman denied Ike's story, though he could not deny that in 1946 he had asked Congress for the power to draft railway strikers...
...case of Edward A. French '54, conscientious objector arrested for draft-dodging, is "a fairly common occurrence," an official of the Fellowship of Reconciliation said last night. Robert A. Lyon, Executive Secretary of the Massachusetts Fellowship group, said that many pacifists, some in this area, face arrest, especially "if their boards are prejudiced against them...
Nixon's running mate, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, meanwhile gave directions in a speech prepared for a Baltimore audience that he has withdrawn his support of universal military training while the draft continues to operate...
Eisenhower charged a "famine or feast" policy to the Administration, which he said has encouraged a frenzied arms expansion with "disorder and duplication and waste." He said that while the draft continues "we cannot at the same time establish any form of training for our young...