Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While at Texas the issue of his draft classification arose. Billings had registered as a conscientious objector. The state hearing officer of the Department of Justice recommended that he be classified as such, although Billings was an avowed agnostic...
...draft authorities were not bound to follow the recommendation, however, and instead ordered him up for a final physical examination and induction into the Army if he passed. In hopes that he would be rejected because of his poor eyesight and thus avoid imprisonment, he reported for his physical. If he were accepted, he planned to refuse to submit to induction and then turn himself over to civil authorities...
...Miss Louisa had kept him hidden through all the long years of war, draft-boards, ration books and national registration could only be guessed at. Some neighbors gossiped that he was Rose's illegitimate son, hidden to avoid family scandal. Louisa herself could not enlighten them. She was carried off to a local hospital with a paralyzing cerebral hemorrhage. Nor could Henry. Scrubbed and trimmed, he was being cared for in a mental hospital only a mile or two away. He knew he had lived through a war, he said, because he had heard bombs; he had been told...
DOVER, N.H., March 3--G.O.P. presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen today said that draft-eligible men between the ages of 17 and 27 should choose the time themselves when want to serve in the armed forces...
Kefauver said that the bill "will pass the Senate if it gets through the House," but that if the bill is defeated, he is in favor of maintaining the present draft system, with an increased R.O.T.C. program...