Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 2⅓ divisions in reserve in the U.S., was already curtailing its draft schedule. The problem was up to the JCS and the U.S. people. They now had Douglas MacArthur's word for it that, one way or another, the U.S. could not escape sharing the cost of Nationalist China's defeat...
...medical students, science majors, and engineers should be exempt from the draft, according to the ballots of 390 voters. Only 47 felt that those studying in the social sciences or other fields of learning merited deferment...
Several students indicated on their polls that draft exemptions should be based on academic grades...
...CRIMSON decided to poll Harvard on the draft issue after learning two weeks ago that deferment for all college students is under consideration in Washington...
Individual draft boards will probably take few college students this year, even if they are not exempted by law, because of the reduced quotas which the Army announced last month. The cut in draft quotas became necessary when the Army's budget was drastically reduced last month...