Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opportunity. Early in the proceedings, Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee and the Administration's man in charge, tried to head off trouble for his bill by offering more concessions. He proposed an amendment 1) postponing the start of U.M.T. until the present draft is ended, and 2) setting an automatic expiration date on U.M.T. for July 1, 1958. "That," said Vinson, "meets every criticism of major importance that has been lodged against this bill...
...told all during the hearings, by the proponents of this measure, that we must get U.M.T. started now in order to be able to build up this reserve, and as we built up this reserve gradually, then we would reduce gradually the number in the active service under the draft. [The Vinson amendment] is just a sop to get a few votes for the bill ... If we never begin U.M.T., we will not have...
...School admissions authorities suggested the flood of forms might be due to undergraduates' uneasiness over the draft situation. But at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean Rogers reported that the number of applications, about 1,466, is quite normal for this time of year...
...really a universal military training program at all, and even if Congress approves it, those who instructed Vinson to keep plugging will not get what they are supporting. Instead, they will get a program limited to five years, one that cannot be set in motion until the present military draft has been lifted, and one where the trainees cannot be inducted until yet another Congressional vote. In addition to these crippling amendments, they will get only a training program, which is not adequate for the needs of a nation threatened with an unpredictable number of little wars and possibly...
...years later freshmen were asked what they could reasonably carry for the whole time that they are in the Houses. The draft was taking effect. Maximum and minimum preferences were introduced in 1943 with eight "groups" listed as the category system returned...