Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacillating policies of the Selective Service Board in Washington and the local draft boards...
...change draft board regulations without giving all men previously inducted an opportunity for release from the Army if the new regulations would exempt them from service...
...Joint Council would openly declare administration policy, and while no provision is made for expelling a rebellious party member, a record of individual action on party issues would be made public. The cowardly anonymity of a "teller" vote, which was used in the House on the devitalizing amendments to draft legislation, would be no longer available to political opportunists. Adoption of the reform committe's proposals will increase party responsibility, enable Congress to discharge its functions more efficiently, and provide a government at once more responsive to popular desires and more capable of decisive action...
This class system of elections is obviously impracticable while the draft is still on and while, with the return of veterans, such a mixture of classes exists in the house. The system may be feasible later. In the meantime, much can and should be done in the direction of making the committees democratic and thoroughly representative. In some houses, there is at present no fixed procedure more than a few vague precedents for committee elections. As a result, representation has often become sporadic and capricious. The desirability and need for some sort of a plan is evident. Adams House...
...event that Selective Service is abandoned, new Freshmen may still start College in the summer term if they can show good cause, Dean Buck said, but even if the draft is still in effect 16 and 17 year old men from high school, not immediately affected by the draft may be told to wait until the fall...