Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more desirable for the country's young men. Selective Service would remain to plague them with rapidly shifting quotas and deferment standards, and local draft boards would still have the power to compound the confusion. Whether they were reservists or not, students and other potentially deferable young men would still be unable to predict their status from year to year. And this uncertainty would continue to make it impossible for them to plan their careers intelligently...
...main fault is that it is a compromise between necessity and the demands of vociferously anti-UMST voters. Originators of the first UMST bill, who drew up their project without pressure from emotional constituents, had the only solution to the current draft muddle: elimination of Selective Service and institution...
Falsified draft cards, drivers' licenses, and hunting and fishing licenses are being used by minors to obtain liquor, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...Cronin, proprietor of the Dunster Street establishment, said he now refuses to serve liquor to men who do not appear to be 21, "whether they have identification or not." The reason for this, Cronin revealed, is that "phony draft cards are being printed in Boston and sold for 50 cents...
Patrick F. Ready, Chief of Police, claimed that he has no knowledge of the printing and selling of false draft cards. He added, however, that if a dealer sells liquor to a minor carrying false identification, both the merchant and the minor will be liable to court action...