Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Lauris Norstad and West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt ("great fella"), handsome Stu Symington held a news conference. Was he a candidate for the Democratic nomination? Reply: "I appreciate the thought. But at this time I have no organization and no plans." But would he refuse a draft? Reply: "I'm in the business of politics. Of course I wouldn't refuse. I wouldn't refuse anything like that." Stu Symington had avoided saying anything divisive: everyone who understood politics' language could agree that he meant that he wanted the nomination...
Delegates to the assembly plan to discuss whether the Suez should be made an international waterway, whether Red China should be admitted to the U.N., whether trust countries should be turned over to the U.N., and whether the U.N. police force should be empowered to draft servicemen from member nations...
...only after all others have been received. Or perhaps the Masters' designation could be kept secret or come merely in the form of a request to the individual involved that he place his name on a petition. Hopefully this matter will be cleared up in committee and the final draft presented to the Council tonight will retain the principle of having the Masters see to it that no capable name be left off the ballot...
Marks is no newcomer to unpleasantness. His U.S. police record includes 32 arrests, from Long Beach, Calif. to Bangor, Me. on charges ranging from drunkenness, vagrancy and assault to auto theft and draft dodging. He escaped from a Wisconsin reform school in 1938, from an Ohio jail in 1946, from a California industrial farm in 1950. Finally, he did 3½ years in the Wisconsin pen for raping a 17-year-old girl. Warden John C. Burke remembers him as "a real stinker...
...Rico governs itself, while turning over all functions that transcend its boundaries, such as defense and foreign relations, to the U.S. The island and the mainland share common citizenship, common money, free movements of persons and goods. Residents of Puerto Rico are subject to some U.S. laws, e.g., the draft, exempt from others, e.g., social security...