Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no choice, and I hope there will be no hesitancy," Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee said recently about extending the draft laws. True to his word, Rep. Vinson hurried the bill through committee after only superficial testimony from Pentagon representatives, had the House pass it, and delivered his package to the Senate, sometimes a more deliberate body...
Passed (381-20) by the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate last week: a four-year extension of the military draft, strongly backed by the Eisenhower Administration and the House Democratic and Republican leadership. A serious attempt to limit the extension to two years was made by Iowa's freshman Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf...
...wanted to know why Rojas had opened a checking account in a big Bogota bank and, without depositing a centavo, had written a check for 76,000 pesos. Rojas' memory, notoriously poor during most of the questioning, failed again. "I don't remember any details about this draft," he said. "This is the first time I've received any information about...
...Army at present is re-evaluating its active duty reserve program by which thousands of college students in the last two years have been able to serve only six months active duty instead of the two years required by the draft. Bernard Gwertzman, former Crimson managing editor, offers his own evaluation here. He served his six months after graduation...
...month RFA program allows men an unprecedented chance to escape the two-year draft, but it also offers the Army the exciting challenge that would compensate for the reduced span of active duty time. Unfortunately, however, the Army has up to now not met this challenge with the imaginative planning necessary to ensure that RFA's will be "capable of effective military service in an emergency...