Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point of all anti-Conant fervor came just before the last war when the president was an ardent advocate of aid to Great Britain and further intervention by the United States. He naturally supported the nation's first peace-time draft. This naturally engendered a certain hostility from the College, since some undergraduates got the idea that Conant was trying to force them all into the Army to get shot at. This was hardly a fair attitude, especially since one of his two sons was at the time eminently draftable, but student picketing of Conant speeches nevertheless became...
...post-war year Conant has crusaded for a more logical method of making scientific decisions in a democracy--"one of my lost causes"--and a stronger public school system. The principle focus for his scrutiny has been, however what he calls "the mess we are making of our draft." The present system of deferments he feels, is both inefficient and undemocratic. It should be replaced by a plan of Universal Military Service under which all men would serve a regular term in the army automatically on leaving high school. In advocating this he has been attached by the far right...
...August Draft Call...
Meanwhile, the Army has announced that its draft call for August will be 29,000 men, a drop of 2,000 from the previous month. A total of 983,430 men have been called into the Army and Marines since the Korean fighting started. But the Marine Corps announced recently that it will once again rely on voluntary enlistments to fill its quota...
...Draft calls are expected to go up considerably in the fall, when it will become necessary to replace the expected million men who will be discharged from active duty starting July 1. Many of these are men who were drafted in the early months of the Korean...