Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress passes the Andrews Bill, every non-veteran student has a four-to-one chance of ducking the draft...
...that out exactly presupposes that the people know exactly-and will say so. Can his supposedly unweighted questions draw sufficiently weighty answers? Gallup can cite example after example to indicate that they can and do. On his own ratings the people were three months ahead of Congress on the draft in 1940, nine months ahead on repeal of the neutrality embargo, two years ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup Poll...
...British proposal on press freedom, and the partial draft of a U.N. Covenant on Human Rights, both of which permit penalties for "systematic diffusion" of false news endangering peace. The U.S. opposed both, thinking they went too far in the direction of state control of news. The Soviet bloc opposed them for not going far enough. (It also opposed the U.S. and French proposals...
...Congress will receive the present proposal is anybody's guess. Already the House has expressed strong opposition to it, and would much rather see a 19-25 draft only. Some circles have criticized this apparent attempt to "ride universal military training through on the coat tails of the draft." Instead of UMT, the House is urging an Air Force of 70 groups, a figure somewhat in excess of Secretary Forrestal's estimate, as a more practical measure. But in defense of UMT General Omar Bradley warned Congress that air power was not the primary concern. "The alternative...
Recently, it has entered the National political fray. Houghteling himself was instrumental in founding the student movement to draft Eisenhower for the presidency, (to break Truman, he explains) but the club as a whole voted last month to support Justice Douglas. The split is purely a tactical one--"expediency versus idealism," as Houghteling explains it--and is by no means a permanent breach...