Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the draft call for January the highest since spring. Hershey given no indication that he plans to raise the draft deferment grade just yet. If does, Hart stated, he would first give advance warning...
Success in landing a good job depends more on initiative and drive than on aptitude, Newby emphasized. He warned that students planning to take the Civil Service Junior Management Assistant examinations must mail their applications in to Washington before November 13. Very few of these J.M.A. positions will be draft-deferable...
...special gravity since World War I; it has disturbed the lives of America's youth since the '305, through depression and war. The fear of depression has receded; the fear of war remains. Those who have been to war and face recall, and those who face the draft at the end of their schooling, know that they may have to fight before they are much older...
...youth is taking its upsetting uncertainties with extraordinary calm. When the U.S. began to realize how deeply it had committed itself in Korea, youngsters of draft age had a bad case of jitters; but all reports agree that they have since settled down to studying or working for as long as they can. The majority seem to think that war with Russia is inevitable sooner or later, but they feel that they will survive it. Reports TIME'S Los Angeles Bureau: "Today's youth does have some fear of the atomic age. But he does not feel...
Hardly anyone wants to go into the Army; there is little enthusiasm for the military life, no enthusiasm for war. Youngsters do not talk like heroes; they admit freely that they will try to stay out of the draft as long as they can. But there is none of the systematized and sentimentalized antiwar feeling of the '205. Pacifism has been almost nonexistent since World War II; so are Oxford Oaths. Some observers regard this as a sign of youth's passivity. But, as a student at Harvard puts it: "When a fellow gets his draft notice...