Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Kennedy, less than 20 students have notified the University that they would not return because of the draft. With 1,114 freshmen already enrolled, yesterday's registration brought the grand total of students now in the College...
...worth pursuing, then they ought to be willing to accept whatever risk is incident to making that fight for that cause.'' Eisenhower, said Scott, indicated a newspaper article on his desk which speculated that Ike would feel impelled to accept the nomination if a genuine move to draft Ike developed. That article reflected his position, he told Scott...
Victory by '52? In July, impelled by De Lattre's drive, the Viet Nam government decreed total mobilization. All men between 20 and 45 were subject to military draft. The machinery to train a national army was already in operation. De Lattre proposed to use the 60,000 Vietnamese who have been fighting in the French army, as a seasoned nucleus. He set up schools for Viet Nam officers (good Vietnamese officers are rare). By year's end, he hopes the Viet Nam army will be 120,000 strong; how good it will be is another question...
...record enrollment of 33,121,000. The nation's classrooms, badly crowded last year, were clogged with 418,000 more pupils than ever before. One reason for the record: colleges, which had feared a 60% drop when the G.I. Bill of Rights went out and the draft came in, lost fewer than 275,000 students 11%) under the present deferment policy...
...Shaker Heights, Ohio. Born in Canada, Johnston became an engineer at 22, as a labor leader took the stand that "it takes guts and skill to run a locomotive, and there's risk, and that's worth money." In 1946, the President's threat to draft striking railroaders into the Army so angered Johnston that he broke all relations with the Administration, supported Dewey...