Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Stevenson had described himself as "temperamentally, physically and mentally" unfit for the presidency. When a friend asked him what he would do if the convention drafted him, he quipped: "Shoot myself, I guess." All the while, however, he never said he would not accept a draft, and his friends kept working furiously...
...balloting and the roll calls of states and the bickering went on, Stevenson and his friends had moments of depression. A man who decides to bow to a draft wants a good strong one. The draft he got was only soso. Two extreme Fair Dealers, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams, telephoned, talked to Stevenson. By midafternoon of the last day, he was working on his acceptance speech. One of his friends who had seen part of the speech marched into the living room and asked how to pronounce "schizophrenia"-the malady...
Sixty-one years ago, in a letter acknowledging a bank draft of $75, Dow Chemical Co.'s Founder Herbert H. Dow wrote: "I think this will last us quite a while." Last week, in the Wall Street offices of Smith, Barney & Co., Dow's present President Leland I. Doan received another check. The amount: $100,425,000. Doan didn't think it would last long. Dow will probably be looking for more money in four years...
When Stevenson had finished, chipper Chicago Boss Jack Arvey got up, undertook to answer the unspoken $64 question: Would the governor accept a draft? Said Arvey: "I've never spent one 3? stamp or made a telephone call asking anyone to vote for Stevenson . . . But I'll say as long as I live that if the Democratic Party nominates Governor Stevenson, I know that in the light of his background...
Harry Truman would not allow himself to be drafted unless there was a thoroughly hopeless deadlock that could not be broken by a draft of Stevenson...