Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel Lubell, in The Future of American Politics, published last week. *The man mainly responsible for blocking the President's scheme to draft the strikers into the armed forces: Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft...
President Truman will fly to an Omaha meeting of Midwest Governors today to draft plans for combatting one of the worst floods in American history. The White House set up the meeting as the rampaging Missouri and Mississippi rivers reached record breaking heights...
Another rumor claimed that student would have to be in the upper quarter of his class to escape the draft, but Selective Service officials denied...
There will be a considerably larger draft call, but the bulk of draftees will come from the 900,000 men now classified as 1A, the spokesman continued. He added that no change in the status of graduate students is contemplated and that law school students will continue to be classified as undergraduates...
Final decisions, however, will still remain with the local draft boards. Under the draft laws, local boards can not grant deferments for periods longer than one year; regulations specifically require reopening of cases at the end of the academic year for all youths granted educational deferments to attend college. This latest information, however, indicates that the local boards will be instructed to continue granting the delays. As of February 29 there were 209,810 students in this category...