Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the new program, young man will be called up at the age of 18 instead of the present 18 years and three months. In order to facilitate the enlarged draft quotas, there will be five registrations, instead of the usual four per year...
...nation as a whole. If Penn or Cornell, just for the sake of argument, decided that a winning football team was a desideratum, it could arrange to procure one while piously and truthfully proclaiming its adherence to League rules. And if the president of Oklahoma accepts the A.C.E. draft and wants to find loopholes, he will surely be able to do so. But the two proclamations of last weekend are most encouraging, even if there is still a long war to be fought...
...April's draft call will be the lowest since last September, the Defense Department revealed yesterday. A total of 19,000 men, 15,000 for the Army and 4,000 for the Marine Corps, will be inducted next month...
...Senator was still at 15%. Then Taft began to rise, and Eisenhower started down. By last April it was 38-22 for Ike; in December it was 30-28. The new result indicated that Ike's announcement of willingness to accept a Republican draft did not cause the great shift his way which some pundits had expected. He gained three percentage points while Taft gained five...
Above Suspicion. In Bowling Green, Ohio, FBI men found Private Albert Furukawa, four months AWOL, living in an apartment over the office of Draft Board...