Word: conscription
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb shell. He hardly had time to draw a deep breath after his third inaugural before he gave the state a breath-taking demand for emergency powers in case of atomic attack or invasion. Dewey wanted stand-by authority to: make law by proclamation, seize private homes and property, conscript manpower, ration raw materials and finished goods, set up constructions priorities, fire any public officer who refused to obey his order (including mayors and police chiefs). This was not exactly martial law, an aide explained, because the Army would not be in charge, and injured citizens would still have recourse...
...still acted as though everything Russia did was right, everything the U.S. did was wrong: during the convention the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the Atlantic pact, the arms program and U.S. courts and U.S. selective service were vehemently denounced (no mention was made of the U.S.S.R.'s conscript army or secret police). But, to soothe the public, the party-liners went along with two paragraphs of policy statement which accused both Russia and the U.S. of blame in the cold...