Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Opponents of a draft extension beyond the present May 15 expiration hoped tonight to force through an amendment that will keep the act alive but suspend inductions...
Publications felt the draft more acutely and more quickly perhaps than other types of activities, since daily or weekly or monthly schedules had to be met, and fewer and fewer experienced men were on hand to do the writing and editing...
...numberous uncertainties are complicating the scene this year the possible continuation of the draft law, the problem of retaining present lettermen, especially Navy students, the guessing games as to who will be returning from the service--all these factors make the gridiron picture this spring far more complicated than ever before...
...President asked Hull and Knox and myself to try to draft such papers...
...People are actually talking about dropping bombs on Russia. Many people who talk so glibly about dropping these bombs neglect the consequences of such action. It would mean that the draft would be extended indefinitely; recenversion would be ended indefinitely; we would be forced to police the world...