Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither war, rationing, nor the advent of the atomic age had altered U.S. teenagers' preoccupation with malted milk, two-hour telephone calls and jukebox music. All had kept right on jiggling. But with draft boards apparently locked up for good, and the bubble-gum market bullish, teen-agers were now devoting more time to the complicated business of acting their age. Certain postwar changes in tribal custom, language, taboos, wooing, peculiarities of dress and methods of transport were evident...
...diplomatic one. Marshall took the decision to Harry Truman, who agreed with it and laid it before congressional leaders on Feb. 27. On the day Marshall left for Moscow, Clark Clifford, Truman's adviser and ghostwriter, began editing Marshall, Acheson and Eisenhower into shape. Clifford's draft was sent to Marshall, who made only a few revisions. That was the background of the statement. (Thus Henry Wallace's angry charge over the radio that Harry Truman had undermined his Secretary of State's assignment was obviously incorrect...
Thirty-two members of the Executive Committee elected at the Chicago Student Conference in December met in the windy city over the weekend to draft a constitution and program for the proposed National Organization of Students, expected to be established this summer...
...once set as labor's chief aim: "More and more." In the spring of 1946 a kind of climax occurred. The great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President's bill and it died. The whole affair ended in a kind of shocked and shamefaced silence...
Some progress had been made on the Austrian draft treaty (such as an agreement "in principle" that Allied troops should be withdrawn 90 days after the treaty's signature). But still unsolved were the most important issues: Russia's demand for a free hand over anti-Communist D.P.s in Austria and her insistence that Austrian property which had been seized or absorbed by the Nazis be surrendered to Russia as reparations (TIME...