Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commenting upon the issues, Braucher called Stevenson's draft proposal "just plain wrong," and the suggestion for an H-Bomb ban "unfortunate...
...burst of applause and cheers in the crowd of 5,000. In a week when the Eisenhower tide was rising (see below) and Stevenson was searching determinedly for a big issue, the H-bomb argument seemed to be striking fire-far more so than his proposal to end the draft. Result: a high-level Stevenson campaign decision to play the hydrogen-bomb proposal for all it was worth-beginning with a national television speech this week...
Sharper Needles. Was it true that Adlai Stevenson, with his end-the-draft and stop-H-bomb-tests appeals, had beat the G.O.P. to a similar campaign punch? Said Ike: "You are telling me things about my Administration that I have never heard of. and I am quite sure no one has come up and suggested to me that we eliminate the draft . . . Now I tell you frankly I have said my last words on these subjects...
Died. James Percy Priest, 56, craggy, countrified onetime (1926-40) reporter for the Nashville Tertnessean, who resigned (1940) when Democrat Joseph W. Byrns, his paper's candidate for re-election from Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District, voted to delay the draft for 60 days, ran and beat Byrns as a New Dealing independent, was elected seven more times, won respect from both parties as Democratic whip (1949-53), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (since 1953), and as a campaigner for public health measures; after surgery for a duodenal ulcer; in Nashville...
...face of an atomic age, Stevenson's New America Reports have shown Americans a glimmer of things to come. His projects for federal aid on health and education and for the aged are soundly worked out. About his draft proposals there is some doubt. Stevenson may not have worked out an ideal defense program as yet. But his recent conjectures on the subject have raised a fruitful issue; he has awakened Americans to the realization that the two-year amateur soldier may not be fitted to modern atomic warfare tactics...