Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gainesville, Ga., Dally Times...
Meanwhile, the House Armed Services Committee agreed yesterday on a draft age of 181/2, and extension of the service period from 21 to 26 months. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) however, decided the committee could not get its bill in shape for House debate before the March 22 recess. This will delay consideration until April 2, when the members return...
...forgot himself only once. In Macon, Ga., unable to buy a newspaper in the colored waiting room, he crossed over to the white side to get one. The agent, cursing, ran out to warn him back-and Rowan returned his curses. When the agent ran to the telephone, Rowan, fearing that there might be trouble, fled from town by taxicab...
...General Joseph S. Bradley, 50, commander of 25th Division: West Point, 1918; stationed in Philippines and China in 1920's and 1930's; chief of staff, 32nd Division, commander 126th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea, World War II; postwar service in the Pacific and at Fort Benning, Ga.; went to Korea as assistant commander of 25th Division...
...there were already enough examples to support the citizen-soldiers' gripes. In Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, reservists and guardsmen angrily complained that they were being i) passed by on promotion lists, 2) asked to quit their outfits (just about impossible) or start breaking in replacements. In Dalton, Ga., a young National Guard corporal had just been offered a better job. He inadvertently mentioned the Guard. "Whoa, just a moment," snapped the interviewer, and called off the deal. In Atlanta, a sergeant in the Air Force Reserve hunted fruitlessly for weeks before he found a job chopping wood...