Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From your explanation of "Mamma's Boy" Draft [TIME, May 27], one gets the idea that, with the Army losing 55,000 a month by the discharge route, and receiving 25,000 replacements, the brass hats won't have enough soldiers "by year...
...days last week Harry Truman had time to stop and catch his breath. The burden of crisis had shifted from the presidency to other hands. The tangled issues of OPA, the draft, labor legislation were squarely, if temporarily, up to Congress. Secretary of State Byrnes was off for Paris, trying to crack the Big Four deadlock on peace treaties. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was guiding U.S. plans for control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). Poised at dead center, the President had nothing to do but wait...
...time when the Army is valiantly striving to increase its enlistment totals, such an example of army justice can hardly be called a recruiting inducement. With the teen-age draft bill still under debate in Congress, it cannot conceivably strengthen the Army's case. What the courts-martial board decides, in the case of Colonel Kilian, now on trial, is yet to be seen. But those who saw some hope for democratization of the army with the apprehension of the top-ranking officers of the Tenth Depot have since realized their sadness, in observing the inequalities of the punishment meted...
West Virginia's diehard Republican Senator Chapman Revercomb rose up on the floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
...House swung into line, the Army would be able to refill its manpower pool with a monthly average of 40,000 18-year-olds and 10,000 19-year-olds through Selective Service. But the House, which had twice shown its determination to keep teen-agers draft-free, still had its back...