Word: drafting
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President Eisenhower last week asked Congress to extend the draft and to approve a reserve program that included a modified version of universal military training...
Last week Army draftees learned that 44,000 of them will be discharged a month or two ahead of schedule in May and June to help the Army reach its new manpower cut of 73,000 men by the middle of the year. Lowered draft calls, 11,000 in February compared to January's 23,000, and early discharge of approximately 3,400 Reserve lieutenants will make up the rest...
Instantly, the Assembly's spoilers reacted. They argued that the WEU bill had been amended since last week and that a new bill had to be drafted. The Foreign Affairs Committee rejected Mendes' draft. He drafted another version, carrying an amendment by Gaullist Leon Noel, onetime ambassador to Poland, to create a watchdog committee on German rearmament. That made it a new bill, the spoilers declared, and it must have a new vote of confidence, which requires 24 hours delay. Wearily, Mendes had to yield...
...Prologue," Thomas' last poem, is part of this bequest, which will be displayed along with works by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Masefield and Ezra Pound. The "Prologue" manuscripts contain the original draft and the finished copy of the poem...
President Eisenhower proposed a new draft law last week which would cut the armed force by four hundred thousand men during the next two years, while building up a reserve of five million men and saving billions of dollars during the next five years...