Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veterans who are sweating out an imminent draft call will be allowed ample time to plan for spring registration according to a statement of War Department plans made yesterday by Howard C. Petersen, Assistant Secretary of War at the Statler Hotel in Boston...
Adding to the recent public announcement that no men would be called during the month of January Petersen said, "We will make known in early January whether we intend to make draft calls in February and March." The present Selective Service Act runs out at the end of March and unless the War Department feels it necessary and Congress agrees to extend the law there will be no more "Greetings" from the President, he explained...
...want to avoid asking for a continuation of the draft," Petersen remarked, pointing out that the present policy calls for a stable, 100 percent volunteer, regular army but that enlistment recruiting had fallen off sharply in the last few months and that many one year enlistments were ending...
...Benedict Arnold of the Chinese Revolution," Yuan Shih-kai became Provisional President of the Chinese Republic in March 1912. The next year he disrupted the Assembly called to draft a permanent constitution, outlawed the Kuomintang Party and established himself as dictator. In 1915 Yuan restored the monarchy with himself as Emperor, but was forced to renounce the throne a few months later...
...University of Michigan in 1921, studied later at Paris and Berlin universities. But as a Bible translator he is, like his editor, a talented amateur. He is one of China's outstanding constitutional lawyers, helped draft the May 5 constitution, helped also with the draft constitution that President Chiang presented last week to the National Assembly (see FOREIGN NEWS...