Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. Last week, with Wilson taking part in the discussions. Admiral Radford and the three service chiefs finished sketching out a defense program for 1956-58. Defense Department officials handed the sketch to the President, along with a draft of the 1955 defense budget...
...Advancement of Colored People, and unofficially (to the Negro press) "Mr. Civil Rights," has his own Howard cheering section. But, though he thinks John Davis "all wrong on civil rights." Marshall stayed up most of one night recently to "edit out the snide cracks" about Davis from a draft brief in the Briggs case, prepared by more emotional and less respectful juniors on N.A.A.C.P.'s interracial legal staff. Says Marshall sagely: "Lose your head, lose your case." But in the courtroom, Marshall is at his most moving when he is most moved...
What makes a refugee run? Since July 1, reported West Berlin officials, 23,421 fled for political reasons; 36,124 for "humanity" reasons, e.g., being ordered into uranium mines; 14,939 were youths under 25 who had no homes or were dodging the VOPO (People's Police) draft...
...Jehovah's Witnesses lay claim to draft exemption on the ground that they are ministers. Last week the U.S. Supreme court backed up one of them in a 6-to-3 decision. What applied to George Lewis Dickinson of Coalings, California, does not necessarily apply to all Witnesses. Justice Tom C. Clark carefully pointed out in his majority opinion, but neither should "a legitimate minister . . . be, for the purposes of the [Selective Service] Act, unfrocked simply because all members of his sect base an exemption claim on the dogma of his faith...
...mere list of the specialized fields in which men can find accupation in the aircraft industry shows at once both the great diversification on the industry and its extreme draft toward specialization. These interests fall under three large classifications: design, research, and production...