Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drop in the total enrollment can be accounted for by the usual reasons--the draft, financial and academic difficulties, and mid-year graduation...
...addition, it is becoming clear that draft calls will be going up again in the near future. By August, Selective Service expects to be calling at least 23,000 men a month, as compared to the present 11,000 monthly calls, and some believe that calls may even go as high as 50,000 next fall. It is not now believed that Formosa will affect the draft totals...
...Extension of the present draft system, administered by General Lewis B. Hershey, for another four years...
...message asked for a four-year extension of the regular draft, a two-year extension of the doctors' draft, an active reserve program with stiff penalties for absentees, active basic training for National Guardsmen and, most controversial of all, six months' basic training-at $30 a month and without veterans' benefits -for teen-agers who would avoid the draft and accept a 9½-year obligation of service in the reserve...
Congress is expected to pass the draft extensions, but it may be hard to sell the House, always hostile to U.M.T. in the past, on the full reserve program. The Board of World Peace of the Methodist Church has already asked 9,000,000 Methodists to oppose "any system by whatever name" that resembles U.M.T. Congressmen can also be expected to ask the cost of teaching thousands of young men the mere fundamentals of military drill and life in view of a still heavy military budget (see above). Most biting comments are likely to come from those who find...