Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy explained that each student is legally allowed one postponement on any induction notice received during the school year. Thus a junior would be permitted to finish the year, but whether he returned to school or not was up to the draft board, which would also be able to call...
...plan." The plan presupposes that Taft will build up an unbeatable lead and Ike's G.O.P. bandwagon will grind to a stop. Then selected Democrats will begin calling for Eisenhower to lead the nation against Taftism. Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence and exhort the Democrats to draft Ike as a great gesture of "nonpartisan Americanism...
...England college students are just about average. A report from the Educational Testing Service which gave the four draft exemption eligibility tests in 1951, shows that the New England Area was fifth out of ten national areas...
Last summer, a Republican Congressman sat across a desk from General Dwight Eisenhower and spoke some unsentimental facts. Said he: "I believe you have the qualities that can hold the Republican Party and the country together. But if you think there's going to be an Eisenhower draft at the convention coming from the grass roots, you're very much mistaken. The men who make up the delegations are professional politicians, and the one thing they dislike is to be made ridiculous. If you're willing to accept the nomination...
...mayhem is a fair way to stop a man, Richard has earned more than his share of scars from slashing sticks and skates. His grin, without his upper plate, is toothless. Two broken legs and a broken arm made him the Canadian equivalent of 4-F in the draft. But in this give & take, Richard has learned to give with the best of them. He once got so infuriated that he knocked out the New York Rangers' "Killer" Dill twice in a single night...