Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results of a CRIMSON poll conducted Tuesday and Wednesday revealed that 543 students were in favor of a proposal to defer all college men from the draft for the duration of their academic career while 742 opposed the measure...
Student opinion on the draft will get a thorough airing today when the CRIMSON distributes a poll on deferment problems to all College dining halls...
...effect of this propaganda on troop morale, finally decided to crack down on those who provided ammunition for the rebel loudspeakers. To give bite to its bark, a special court-martial in Athens charged handsome Michael Chryssicopoulos (36), scion of one of Greece's wealthiest families, with draft dodging...
...files-and he glories in it. The GHQ, his combined home and office, is a cluster of yellow brick buildings on a quiet corner in Georgetown. Its head man, "DP" in the office lingo, is up at 6:30 a.m. in bathrobe and slippers, to tinker with a first draft of The Column. Precisely at 8 he shaves, turning the bathroom radio to an NBC news roundup that often brings the voice of his brother Leon, a commentator, from Paris...
While we are happy to see any manifestations of a check on the drive toward war, we feel that the problem of the draft should be approached along more fundamental lines. Gerald Gordon; 1L Chairman Young Progressives of Harvard