Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local draft board has now ordered Pierre Fischer 1G to report for his physical next month...
...just don't know which way to turn," Fischer said last night. "Right now I'm trying to get a Presidential appeal, but my best hopes are very slim." The draft board has completely refused to reconsider his case on the grounds that Fischer does not have American citizenship, which allows a conscientious objector status...
...disheartening thing about all this," Fischer objected, "is that my citizenship papers are being delayed because the draft board won't give me a conscientious objector listing." As a citizen of Belgium, Fischer is caught in a vicious circle that apparently can have no satisfactory ending...
Upon examining that Act after the meeting, however, Butcher said, "He was misleading us--a person can legally be a conscientious objector under our draft laws...
...federal projects only to have their offers passed over. Reason: the 1933 Buy American Act gives preference to U.S. companies, and in practice domestic bidders have been protected by a 25% price differential. Last week President Eisenhower moved to liberalize the Buy American Act, instructed White House aides to draft an executive order to lower the price preferential. The new figure: around 12%. The move had been foreshadowed earlier this month (TIME, Nov. 15) when a British turbine manufacturer won a million-dollar Government contract with a bid only 11.8% below the nearest U.S. offer...