Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thanksgiving Day the President worked alone over the drafts of two major speeches he will deliver to the Indian Parliament in New Delhi and at the opening of the U.S. exhibit at New Delhi's World Agricultural Fair. Draft writer: Kevin McCann, president of Ohio's Defiance College and author of Ike's 1952 campaign biography, Man from Abilene. The theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone...
...mission. The Belgians and the Dutch are not usable for the moment. The French forces are in Algeria." Furthermore, NATO's 30 reserve divisions, theoretically ready 30 days after the start of hostilities, do not for all practical purposes exist at all. The Dutch and Belgians now draft soldiers for an inadequate twelve-month period and are understrength besides; Britain's materiel stocks on the Continent are far below the levels recommended by NATO...
...season long, scouts from the National Football League closely study college games, and run down tipsters' estimates in the search for the big boys who can play the man's game of the pros. Meeting in Philadelphia this week to draft college stars for next year's rosters, the pro teams were ruled by their own particular manpower requirements, ended up picking some players far down on everyone's lists. But, with surprising unanimity, the pro scouts this year agree on the nation's finest college players. The pros' All-America...
...with the draft card had told Freshmen he was 19. He told the police he was 22. In the same dorm he said that he had previously been working at three cents a week to pay off the orphanage, now in Indiana, for the money it had spent raising...
Asked in Greenough to produce draft cards, the youths retorted that orphans do not need them, although one of them admitted Saturday that he had a card in his hotel room...