Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story that happened to me . . . down in Washington. A group of people came in like you, from a distress area, so-called labor-surplus area . . . One of them made a complaint-that was a little over a year ago-and he said, "You have just reduced the draft in our district. There are no more young men that won't have to go to Korea and fight and that will add to our unemployment." And that idea that a 19-year-old boy could be drafted and sent to Korea to be shot at, and he didn...
This week Clifford Case sat before the television cameras and quietly called the story about his sister a dirty smear. His sister, a physical-education teacher at the exclusive Kingswood School for Girls near Detroit, had flown to New York to help him draft the reply. Said Case: "The Adelaide Case mentioned by Bella Dodd was not my sister . . . The Adelaide Case Miss Dodd knew in 1943 was then a middle-aged woman . . . my sister Adelaide was only 31 at that time . . . was then teaching physical education in Boston . . . She never heard of Miss Dodd or the activities described...
...Gangster. Billy Graham surely showed a singleness of goal. In 1943, he toyed with the idea of joining up as a G.I., decided against it, instead volunteered for the chaplains' corps. Later he withdrew from the corps, saw no war service at all (as a minister he was draft exempt). After a year as pastor of a small basement church in Western Springs, Ill. (the active congregation more than doubled while Billy was there), he joined an organization called "Youth for Christ," founded in Chicago to combat delinquency among teenagers. As a Youth-for-Christer, Billy traveled all over...
Undergraduates without checking accounts should find the trouble of asking a friend to make out a draft to them worth the extra effort. This check can in turn be made out to the H.A.A., thereby ensuring all undergraduates of a receipt...
Manpower: Some 150,000 men, mostly World War II veterans who have already volunteered, will be sifted to provide training cadres. Soldiers will also be conscripted by local draft boards-an innovation for Germany -and serve for 18 months...