Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to the Sunday New York Times, Galbraith had suggested that a paid volunteer force might replace the draft system. He felt that the draft was based on obsolete assumptions, chief of which was that a military power must be produced cheaply...
...behest of a Miami draft board, Gregory Hancock Hemingway, 24, youngest son of Author Ernest Hemingway, winged into Florida from British East Africa, was promptly sworn into the Army, in which Private Hemingway aims to become a paratrooper. A coffeegrower, big-game hunter and guide in Tanganyika, young Hemingway wryly confessed that he had to sell a gun and his car to raise the $800 air fare. Though he would get little chance to show it in the Army, had he inherited any of Papa's literary genius? Grinned Gregory: "I write nothing more than an occasional bad check...
John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, and a Stevenson speech-writer, yesterday attacked the assumptions upon which the draft is based and suggested new ways of providing an armed force...
...letter to the Sunday New York Times, Galbraith termed obsolete the concept that "military manpower must be produced cheaply." Since the United States can now afford the amount necessary to pay a volunteer force, the draft survives, in Galbraith's opinion, "principally as a device by which we use compulsion to get young men to serve at less than the market rate...
Galbraith cited the "highly regressive arrangement" of the present draft, charging that the system shifts the burden of military service from the "well-to-do taxpayer, who benefits from lower taxes, to the impecunious young draftee." This arrangement would not be tolerated in any other area, he felt...