Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more, and sometimes he had less, prescience than other men. Four months before Pearl Harbor, he voted against an extension of the draft; two months later, he voted against a second lend-lease appropriation (as he had voted against the original lend-lease proposal); a month before Pearl Harbor, he voted against arming U.S. merchant ships; on Dec. 6, 1941, he demanded to know why a force of 2,000,000 men was justified. In that force, actually multiplied sixfold, Taft's four sons were to serve throughout...
When Premier David Ben-Gurion set out to draft women into the Israel army four years ago, extremist leaders forced him to exempt Orthodox girls. Soon 30% of all girls called up blithely claimed to be Orthodox. Last year Ben-Gurion wrote a new bill which would draft Orthodox girls for work on farms, in hospitals and in immigrant camps, instead of the army. The new bill would not force ultra-Orthodox girls to wear the "unmaidenly" Israeli women's army uniforms, and would let them return to their own homes at night. Moreover, they would not be controlled...
With that announcement, the three-man draft board of Wabash County, Ind. resigned in a body last week. Reason: Selective Service headquarters in Washington had asked the board to postpone induction of a Congressman's son, John V. Beamer Jr., 24, an engineer. His employer, Procter & Gamble Co., had requested an occupational deferment. Said the board's chairman: "We thought we had [Beamer] in the Army, where he belongs. But some sinister influence or individual in Washington saw fit to interfere...
...Helped draft a U.N. Covenant of Human Rights. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was for two years chairman of the drafting commission, but the influence of delegates from the Soviet Union and other dictatorships is apparent in the document. The covenant dilutes such natural rights as freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly by mixing them with highly dubious "rights." Some of these "rights" would enlarge government powers instead of restricting them. According to the covenant, for example, the state is obliged to see to such things as "healthy development of the child" and "environmental hygiene" and "the right of everyone...
Lineage. In Chicago, charged with draft-dodging, James Pharr, 25, failed to make his point and drew a five-year sentence after telling the court that he was exempt from service because he was related to the Neanderthal man, was therefore an alien "Asiatic...