Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ninety-five percent of the senior class is between 19 and 26, the age group eligible for military service. Of these, 40.5 percent is 1-A, while 12.5 percent is 1-D, deferred by taking reserve training. Marriage deferments go to five percent, while another 13 percent is exempt from the draft because of previous service. A final 24.5 percent of the class is example because of work "essential to the national interest...
...indicated that several insurance companies were interested in the project and that he "would make every effort to bring someone here" to build a development that "New York's Riverside Drive would take notice of." The tax-exempt yards cost the City $80,000 annually in lost revenue. The City would also benefit from the gain in real estate value on such a development...
...drafting is necessary, 'Cliffe girls would exempt all college women and take all others between 18 and 35 years who are not engaged in essential industry or have children...
...they may defer bright collegemen; not that they shall. All was confusion again. The new plan provoked cries of favoritism, questions on whether aptitude tests are a proper basis for deferment, and a spate of radio comedians' gags. The outcry sounded as if Selective Service was planning to exempt college students, not merely defer them...
...rules which we did let pass this time were basically those which stated the University's obvious right to protect its tax exempt status and its "good name." A little careful thought will show that the University cannot afford to surrender these rights...