Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal aides began to notice signs of exhaustion in February. Once he tore up a draft of a speech at 2 a.m. and sent the writer back to rewrite it by 8 o'clock. He summoned generals and admirals to his office on Sunday afternoon to advise him, then was unable to make up his mind on the problem at hand. One associate noticed that Forrestal had worn a "hole in his head" by indulging his nervous habit of scratching his scalp. On March 1, Harry Truman sent for Forrestal and asked for his immediate resignation. This...
Pentagon officials revealed yesterday that the armed forces will be enlarged by 500,000 men in the near future. The move will force local draft boards to "scrape the bottom of the manpower barrel." This increase will raise the total to 4 million from the present goal...
July is the scheduled date for the release of some of the men inducted at the outbreak of the Korean war, who will then have served the two year term of duty the present draft law provides. To replace these, and to provide the additional men required for armed forced enlargement, tightening of the draft laws will be requested, Defense Department officials predict...
...entire problem of the armed forces increase, the requirements for men to replace those who will soon be released, and the necessity for changing the draft laws and lessening the number of deferments was explained in an unpublished bulletin distributed throughout the Selective Services System's local boards...
...passing performance on the test doesn't insure immunity to draft because under current Selective Service laws, weighing of a test score is up to the discretion of each individual draft board...