Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staff members have quietly done constructive work in the city of Washington and in "casework"-helping his constituents solve their own problems with the government, mostly in draft and welfare cases. Along with Sen. Alan Cranston's (D-Calif.) office, they managed to reduce the 15-year sentences of the 27 men condemned in the Presidio Mutiny case...
...horrible shadowy octopus, swallowed up the men and issues whole and forced on them a half-hearted legal defense. The story of the trial becomes almost absurd as we see Sloane Coffin's lawyer arguing that if his client did in fact aid and abet the burning of draft cards, this did not hinder Selective Service but help it, since all draft card violators were to be immediately reclassified as I-A meat on the hoof...
...announcement said Hershey's successor will be appointed soon to serve a rector until the turnover next year. After Feb. 16, Nixon said Hershey will help in the transition to a new, youngest first draft system and then "help develop a standby draft system for the period when the nation develop an all-voluntary armed force...
Hershey was born on an Indiana farm in 1893 During the thirties, he developed the draft system which has provided more than 14,5 million men for wars in Europe, the Pacify, Korea, and finally Vietnam. He became director of the system four months before Pearl Harbor...
...frequent target of anti-war and anti-draft protestors, Hershey was condemned as autocratic, too old for the job, and defiant of legal draft policy. Sen. Eugeue J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) promised during his 1968 presidential campaign to fire Hershey if elected. Nixon refaced to talk such a stand...