Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stickiest issue of all was an amendment to give draftees the choice of service in a segregated unit. Here Southerner Vinson, an outspoken opponent of the proposal, got impassioned support from Chicago's Democratic William Dawson, one of the two Negroes in the House, whose face bears scars from combat in World War I. "How long, how long, my confreres and gentlemen from the South," Dawson cried, "will you divide us Americans on account of color . . . Deny to me, if you will, all that American citizenship stands for. I will still fight for you. Why will this body...
...Committee on Houses this week turned down a request by a unit of the Army Organized Reserve Corps to place representatives in the common rooms at dinner time to answer questions for prospective enlistees. The unit was the 356th Field Artillery Battalion of the 94th Division...
...before him at Albany, decided that a crime probe was a pretty good idea after all, if he was running it. He set up his own five-man crime investigating committee, gave it $250,000 and subpoena power and told it to look into ties between crime and "any unit of government anywhere in the state." He also ordered a special grand-jury investigation of Saratoga Springs, the horsy spa only 30 miles from the governor's mansion where gambling has been going on for years, though the governor seemed surprised to hear about...
...Corporal John Keith Waller, British Army, who deserted to Berlin's Eastern sector a year ago as a "fighter for peace" but returned to his unit in West Berlin last week, "fed up" with Communism. This week a British court-martial sentenced him to two years in jail...
...bomber approaches the target, it climbs to seven miles and every crew member dons arctic clothing and oxygen masks against the thin, cold air. Below, a radar unit keeps an eye on the plane's approach, checks the accuracy of its simulated bomb drop. Finally, while Detroit slumbers, unaware that it has been "demolished," the crew members relax from a job which-to them-is already routine. Audiences are more likely to find the trip fascinating, reassuring and, in all its implications, more than a little frightening...