Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More than a hundred Protestant clergymen, speaking through the National Council Against Conscription, picked Sunday, Aug. 22 (a week before draft registration) as a day "of mourning and repentance" and the time to start campaigning for draft repeal...
...Charles left France out on a limb by accepting the Russian draft as a basis for consideration. France's chief delegate, Adrien Thierry, was so infuriated that he wouldn't speak to the Anglo-U.S. delegates after the session...
...uniforms-blue-green zipper dresses with short balloon sleeves-to replace their antiquated, long-sleeved, blue middy outfits. Los Angeles mothers complained that their offspring not only stayed awake until all hours because of daylight-saving time, but howled for refreshments. They asked the city council to draft an ordinance putting a 9 o'clock curfew on the tinkling bells of Good Humor wagons...
...Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
...newly fashioned club, President Truman assured the jittery steel industry last week that there was no need to duck-yet. He "did not consider it appropriate" to invoke the drastic powers to control steel which the Republican Congress had unwittingly given him in a sleeper amendment to the draft act (TIME, July 5). Instead, the President asked the Department of Commerce to work out a voluntary allocation program to take care of military needs for steel...