Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, a much larger group in favor of some change in the treaty-making setup. In a search for compromise, earnestly pursued both by Bricker and Eisenhower representatives, proposal after proposal was tried and discarded. But by week's end, the basis for negotiations had narrowed to a draft made by Georgia's veteran Democratic Senator Walter George...
...June graduates would receive training in Army basic branch schools, as active duty, and then would be released from active duty. They would still obliged, however, to participate with Active Reserve Units. The magazine said it was likely that ROTC graduates' names would be submitted to their draft boards if they did not join the active reserve...
...concern over the credits started over five years ago, when enrollment in the units zoomed up with imposing draft rulings. With Harvard a 16 course college, the ROTC curriculum equalled 25% of their educational program for many students. At all other universities, where at leas t20 courses are needed for graduation, the ROTC comprises a much smaller percentage of the curriculum...
...every succeeding session of Congress. Secretary of State Dulles recommended that the President accept a watered-down amendment which, if passed, would effectively kill off the Bricker amendment. Ike agreed, and Senate Majority Leader William Knowland and Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Homer Ferguson hammered out a substitute draft...
...night. But the P.W.s were somewhat disillusioned by their welcome at South Korean Army reception depots. Army officers told them they could join up (with no advance pay, no bonus, no leave), or they could return to civilian status and-if they were still in their 20s the draft. One young P.W. lieutenant was bitter. "I want to go to school," he said. "I've been in the Army eight years, almost four of them behind wire. It's unfair...