Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high defense Department official yesterday spiked rumors of an increased drafting of college students in the near future. The official emphatically declared that the draft program will continue "exactly as it has operated in the past year...
Reports of the probable raising of the draft test score necessary for deferment and of lowering the number of 2A deferments have circulated since Anna Rosenberg. Assistant Secretary of Defense, announced an expected release of over 8,00,000 soldiers over the summer. There will be no raising of the draft test passing mark of 70, according to the manpower official, and 2A deferments will continue to be granted in about the same quantity as before...
...basement rooms at St. Joseph's Orphanage. Washington had nothing then but two state asylums for such children, and no plans for an outside program. A nun (Sister M. Virginia Claire) decided to see what the parents themselves could do. She got four couples interested, and helped them draft a plan...
Very few men in '55 were worried by the prospect of the draft. Only a handful stated that they expect to be called by the armed forces before enrolling next fall...
Later, in a speech given before 200 people in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon, Spaak said that the future of Europe hangs on the success of three projects: the Schuman plan, the European Army, and the convening of a European convention to draft a constitution The talk was sponsored by the newly formed Harvard Committee on United Europe...