Word: three
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's three-man indoor team of Captain Walter Beveraggl at number two position, Tom Calhoun at number one, and his brother Sandy at back, got a slow start in the unfamiliar building. Cornell, which had just returned from defeating Princeton, 16 to 4, had a 3 to 0 lead at the end of the first chukker...
Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, will not support the three-year extension of the present draft law urged by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, he disclosed in a recent telegram to the CRIMSON...
...United Press story revealed yesterday that Johnson recently told President Truman a three-year addition to the draft is "essential" to national security. Vinson, in a telegram received earlier this month, expressed confidence that Congress would not extend...
...present law, passed in 1948, expires on June 24. Johnson wants it extended to June 30, 1953 and says that Secretary of State Dean Acheson, the National Security Resources Board, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the three branches of the armed forces all favor such an extension...
...request comes as no surprise. Officials in Washington last summer revealed to the CRIMSON that "the military will certainly ask for an extension . . . despite the facts that the Navy has not used the draft for three years, that the Air Force and the Marine Corps both have long waiting lists, and that the Army took less than 30,000 draftees . . . then found it didn't need any more...