Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in the prosperous U.S. no amount of persuasion could induce enough U.S. citizens to claim their birthright. Despite posters and propaganda, Army enlistments were not going well. This week, however, the Army was assured of a trickle of replacements. Local boards, after a two months' draft holiday, prepared notices ordering up 25,000 19-29 year-olds for the Army's September quota...
...males in the 19-29 age group would be taken. The revised draft law specifically exempted fathers, essential agricultural workers, veterans who had served overseas or at least six months in the continental U.S. Selective Service headquarters ordered further deferments for medical, dentistry and veterinary students, certain teachers and researchers in physical sciences and engineering. Last week exemptions were also ordered for college and university professors, home construction workers, essential production and transportation workers...
Last week Molotov bounced out again when Greece's Premier Constantin Tsaldaris addressed the Conference. The same day Molotov used the draft of the Italian peace treaty for a speech which undoubtedly pleased the Italian Communist Party (with whose Secretary, Palmiro Togliatti, Molotov had just been closeted), but pleased scarcely anybody else...
...Canadian Government decided to forgive & forget. In the House of Commons last week Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that henceforth the Dominion's 15,858 draft-dodgers, absentees and deserters would be exempt from arrest or prosecution. There was one exception : the order would not apply to absentees and deserters who are still overseas. To anti-conscription Quebec the amnesty brought immense relief: most of the delinquents hiding out at home are Quebeckers...
...tentative procedure was adopted whereby the committee, at its meeting tonight in Leverett House, will elect a sub-committee to draft the new constitution during the vacation between terms. The full committee will meet immediately after the start of the fall term to approve their work...