Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson's desire to strengthen the Guard in order to make it "a solid base" upon which to construct the country's military organization has resulted in a mandatory six-month, active-duty training period for all Guardsmen and Reservists who enlist after April first. This six-month period will be a minimum training requirement for all branches of the service, with one minor exception in the case of men under 18 1/2 years of age in the National Guard...
This means that several programs, which Wilson would probably cite as "draft-dodging" techniques, will go out of existence on the first of next month. These programs require no active duty, but merely from 6 to 11 years of ready reserve depending upon the program chosen. The ready reserve involves weekly two-hour drill sessions forty-eight times during the year (actually this can be lowered to a minimum of 42 times a year) and two weeks each summer at a training camp...
...must all follow their example, and so John G. Wofford said last night, "Stand firmly upon our ideals, as we slaughter the unkempt creatures...
CENSORSHIP. "The Legion of Decency and the National Office for Decent Literature ... do not regard themselves as 'censors.' They do, however, publish moral appraisals of movies and books. As a result, they are looked upon by Protestants as 'unAmerican pressure groups,' or as symbols of the intolerance of Catholics. [But the Legion addresses] its directives only to Catholics. Protestants are just as concerned as Catholics are to protect their youngsters from suggestive and defiling influences. The trouble is that some Protestants seem to feel themselves almost obliged to patronize the movie which the Catholics condemned-just...
...even Honora can stay in the same league with old Cousin Justina, who is richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses is making nightly trips across the roof of the huge house to her ward's bedroom, she lets fly with a shotgun...