Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither the graduate nor the undergraduate policy have been announced yet by Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, or by President Truman, both of whom must approve the committee's report. However, Col. Irving Hart, publicity director for the draft, predicted last month that whatever plan the committee urged would be accepted by Gen. Hershey...
...committee would now defer graduate students in all fields until the completion of all studies, at which time they would again be subject to a draft call...
Dean Bender yesterday criticized sharply the new proposals of the Selective Service deferment committee which would keep top college students out of the draft. "Why rule the best brains out of the Army and Navy?" Bender said. "It doesn't seem to me to be a very sensible thing...
...CRIMSON learned Tuesday from Washington that the new deferment scheme, which still needs the approval of draft director Hershey and the White House, has the following basic criteria...
...believe in the deferment of college students as such," Bender said, reiterating an earlier stand. He said he supports the plan of the American University Association under which no one under 22 would be deferred, and those over 22 would escape the draft only if their work or study is essential to the national welfare...