Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mind Readers. The louder Stevenson shouted no, the more certain everyone seemed to be that he was really trying to say just the opposite. When newsmen asked him if he would consent to a draft he replied: "I cannot speculate about hypothetical situations. But I don't believe there has ever been a genuine draft movement of an unwilling man for the presidential nomination by either party. I doubt if such a thing is possible...
...sits in his lavish offices in Vienna's Ballhausplatz, under a portrait of Metternich, who manipulated Europe from the same chamber. Yet somehow Figl is not out of place: he knows little of crafty diplomacy but has, in the words of a friend, the nerves of a draft horse...
Hardened by the wind and ice that go with a Boston winter, the mailmen have managed to build up remarkable resistance to relatively mild cold shoulders. Also in their favor is the fact that they bring draft board notices, bills, checks, and the like. When the mailman shoves his foot in a University door, he is well aware of the importance of the U.S. Mail to the student he solicits...
This trouble is inherent in any system that depends on section as a means of raising armies. There is bound to be a vast number of uncertainties which effectively prevent those in the purview of draft boards from doing a great many things which they would enjoy and which would benefit them. Eliminating the selective process, with its bewildering maze of deferments and categories would allow those who wish to plan ahead to do so--they could decide upon a grand tour for some particular time, knowing that at least the odds are in their favor that the military will...
Congressmen have little time to think about raising armies at this point--soothing the angry mothers, aroused by the last attempt to revise the draft law, and other matters occupy their efforts. But by the time elections are over, the number of petty yet justified complaints about the discriminatory and confusing consequences of a draft system based on Selective Service will have reached a level where Congress must take note of them. The time cannot come too soon...