Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draw to your attention and that of your readers the further facts and options on military service available at the Draft Board office in the Phillips Brooks House...
...managers of the Wursthaus and the Picadilly In last night joined Cronin in saying that their establishments do not use the type of machine which might spread the diseases. Draft beer at the Wursthaus comes directly from the barrels through three-foot stainless steel tubes, while the Picadilly uses bottled beer...
...recently reduced rate of draft induction will continue at least through this spring, the office of Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, announced last night. The current minimum draft age is 21 1/2 and is slowly rising, the statement added...
Hershey's office issued the statement to refute claims made by Retired Admiral DeWitt C. Ramsey. Ramsey, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, said that draft policy is paradoxical...
Actually, the framers had no apparent intention of granting the legislature the sole authority over war and peace. In an earlier draft of the Constitution, they had given Congress the power to "make" war, but in the completed document, they settled on the word "declare." Madison explained that this change was made to leave "the Executive the power to repel sudden attacks." Hamilton himself, once the Constitution was safely ratified, abandoned his earlier emphasis on the restricted role of the President in military affairs...