Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majority Leader William Knowland, caught in the crossfire between the Administration and the Brickerites, produced still another amendment draft. It was a makeshift effort with little support. Knowland finally announced that there would be no vote on any of the schemes until next week so as to give the U.S. public "an opportunity to look and study...
Details of the new program have not yet been charted. But is is important that any final draft contain the express provision that no credit be given for courses by-passed. The aim of the plan should be to make a student's four years in the College more worthwhile, not to provide him with an easy path to three-year graduation. For this reason the Committee's proposal to admit a number of men directly into the Houses as sophomores seems unsound. Those given sophomore status would have their total course requirements reduced to 12 from the usual...
...AMERICANIZATION: Hawaii is thoroughly American and has proved its loyalty America during the Second World War and also during the Korean conflict. The army, navy, and FBI all attest to this record and praise it. The men of Hawaii are subject to the draft. During the Korean conflict, the ratio of casualties from Hawaii on a population basis was six times that of the United States...
This Is the Army. In Portland, Ore., after evading the draft for five years, Paul Emerson Maier, 26, was nabbed by the FBI, delivered to the local induction center, where he was rejected...
...have substituted, and I say 'we' with emphasis, for the uncontrolled rush to arms at any price, the long view and the steady, calculated buildup." One Alex ander ambition: to build up a mobile strategic reserve in the U.K. This dashed hopes that the two-year draft might be reduced. Alexander's biggest difficulty: so many of Britain's 860,000 soldiers are needed in Malaya, Kenya, Hong Kong, the Suez...