Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact and its meaning were slow to sink in. It was as though Stettinius and Eden did not want to look at the skeleton which had invaded the feast. All next day they and Molotov labored away, in a kind of desperate friendliness, at changes in the Dumbarton Oaks draft of their world charter, but the skeleton would not be banished...
...unless you have to," they say, and we know this is not propaganda. . . . As for us girls, we love our country and will count it a great privilege to serve it, but we gotta keep peace in the family, you know. So a draft is the only way they'll get us. (TWELVE REGISTERED NURSES) Atlanta...
...Congress considered the bill to extend the draft for another year, Allied victories kept piling up. So did pressure in Congress to keep 18-year-olds from being sent into combat without a Congress-prescribed period of training...
Last week, after listening to George Marshall's soldierly warning, the Senate threw out a proposal to require a year's pre-combat training for men under 20. It also threw out an attempt to halt the draft of men over 31. But then, turning its back on the President and the Chief of Staff, it adopted an amendment barring the use of 18-year-olds in combat unless they have had at least six months' training. The vote...
Three days later Alabama's Representative John J. Sparkman rose in the House, announced the junction of U.S. and Russian troops in Germany. The House applauded. Then, without a record vote, it unanimously approved what the Senate had done, sent the draft act and its restriction to the White House...