Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson's lights this meant the H-bomb, the proposal to end the draft, a stepped-up attack on Nixon and a crackling criticism of the Eisenhower foreign policy. And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard. In Michigan, in heavily industrial (and heavily unionized) Flint, nobody seemed to care much. Some 3,500 turned out to hear him call Nixon "shifty," "rash" and "inexperienced," a "man of many masks." (Tom Dewey had drawn 5,000 the night before.) The crowd...
...bigger, and Adlai, in his moderate voice, fed them strong words. He expanded his list of Republican demons to include Senator Bender, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, Indiana's Bill Jenner. He linked his demand for an end to H-bomb tests with his proposals to end the draft: "We don't want our boys to be drafted," he said at Akron. "We don't want to live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud." At Youngstown. before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 10,000, he devoted a full-dress speech to military manpower. The gist...
November Choice. But Ike had come West also to speak-not in anger at a flailing opposition, but in anxiety lest the voters mistake the issues that were being raised. The Democrats seemed determined to make the draft and the H-bomb the issues on which they would win or lose. In that case, the U.S. had to understand its choice. In Portland's aging civic auditorium, he spelled it out: "Hard sense and experience versus pie-in-the-sky promises and wishful thinking...
...next step came in January 1952 when Ike let it be known that he was available for a draft. Then he had to learn the hard way that his duty lay within the democratic procedure of competing and campaigning; he also had to suffer the election campaign doubts of those who feared that he might be, after all, a gladhander, a straddler, a man who could be led around, or swayed by the plaudits of the crowd. But when, after nomination and election, the prospective Eisenhower Cabinet approved the draft of his inaugural speech somewhat unctuously, Ike said sharply...
...area, as in all other areas, are determined by the annual national congress. This year the congress authorized the establishment of a "NSA Legislative Subcommission" in Washington whose major project for the year will be to add teaching to the list of critical occupations which allow deferment from the draft...