Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Until last year, Brown hadn't won a football game in the Stadium since 1938. But Rip Engle's team gave its coach a going-away present in the form of a 28 to 14 victory to break the jinx...
...come. So runs the reasoning of these plotting the country's policy, and there is little basis for disagreeing with them. Somehow the nation must provide the manpower and the skills over a long period both for a large army and for its civilian needs. This is why the present draft program soon must be replaced by a long-range plan, one which will balance off the needs of civil professions and the military...
...under discussion are three proposals for such a long-run program. The first, Universal Military Training, is embodied in an Administration bill before Congress. Put forward long before the international situation deteriorated to its present condition, this measure is much too cumbersome to be effective: its provisions for a special Training Corps, partly under civilian control, do not get men for the necessarily large standing army now needed. The President will probably kill this proposal, in favor of one of the other two possibilities, Universal Military Service or some sort of deferment plan...
...Senate Armed Services Committee has already discussed U.M.S. while on the U.M.T. bill. But no U.M.S. bill has been introduced as it would have to be to get the program into effect. Under the present draft law, of course, General Hershey can set up any system of deferments he pleases. Thus the Trytten plan could go through without Congressional approval; but Conant's proposal must go through the legislature, since it is entirely...
Chances of Passage: Now very small. The Administration Bill is in the Senate Military Affairs Committee at present. But many sources say now that the measure will be replaced with a long-range program, either a deferments plan, or U.M.S...