Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hydra-Headed Confusion." Next morning Jimmy Byrnes met War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal to draft a policy directive for Ambassador Hurley. It was in the same nebulous terms as before. It called for continuing support of Chiang Kai-shek's Government but avoided any clear-cut U.S. commitment to do something that would actually help...
...France "unity" reached the point where the Communists sat down with democratic parties to draft a new constitution and found no drastic differences in their proposals for a fundamental law. The Communists, indeed, opposed a Gaullist plan to strengthen the executive power. This, too, was a part of the Communist veto position...
...Commander said he expected that the College would revert to the old program quickly after the demobilization. "The wartime set-up was created primarily to conform to the draft regulations by actually enlisting the men in the navy. We couldn't maintain our civilian training policy in the face of Selective Service...
Differences. On that day, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1940, Gone With the Wind was playing and draft boards were getting ready to induct their first man. Franklin Roosevelt had just signed a $1½ billion defense appropriation, and was about to light into Wendell Willkie. He was still an energetic and abidingly confident man. His guests, even when they disagreed with him, found him irresistibly full of good humor...
...great many variables will, of course, Influence these figures and make any prediction now subject to considerable change, Bender cautioned; the biggest question-mark right now is the peacetime draft...