Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross Slander." Most Washington correspondents believed that Dean Acheson had been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
Into the Sunshine. Not very happy either about Harry Truman's ways or his chances, Humphrey managed to lead an uninstructed delegation to Philadelphia, able to jump on any bandwagon. When Humphrey and his fellow Northern liberals could draft neither Ike Eisenhower nor Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, they swallowed Truman, and tried to look happy. Then they went to work to get Truman's civil rights program into the Democratic platform. While Southerners howled, Northern liberals brought out a minority report from the platform committee, backing up the President...
...Medical School will not make use of Local Draft Board Memorandum Number Seven to grant deferments to pre-medical students, Dean C. Sidney Burwell announced last night. Memorandum Seven permits medical schools to provisionally accept pre-medical students in their-first or second year of college and recommend them for deferment...
Hershey issued two orders to State draft directors, with instructions to pass them along to local boards. They were...
...semi-permanent stoppage of the draft machinery was ordered simultaneously with an announcement that no more enlistees would be accepted for a two-year term. From now on, the enlistment period will be three years for all men except 18-year-olds, who can still sign up for 12 months...