Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work's career as a large-scale organizer began during the War, when he gave up his private practice and was put in charge of the medical aspects of the Army draft. Will H. Hays selected Dr. Work to organize the farm vote in the Harding campaign and later retained his services...
Secretary Mellon had descended from his train nervously, shyly, and hurried to shut himself in a hotel suite. He was clinging to his maxim, "There's luck in leisure." Also, obviously, he was under great pressure to draft President Coolidge if possible. He had learned, or accepted, nothing final before leaving Washington.* He still sought conference with other leaders before speaking...
...politicians were well-meaning preachers who hired gambling dens for prayer-meetings, and bribed notorious gangsters to attend. Amused and contemptuous, the gangs whirled merrily on down the broad way that leadeth to destruction, their activities culminating in the wholesale looting and burning and carnage known as the 1863 Draft Riots (Lincoln's conscription decree...
...Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (he, too, is a delegate), to follow the lead of National Committeeman Charles D. Hilles in trying to "draft-Coolidge"; President Roosevelt's daughter Alice (wife of Speaker Nicholas Long-worth), to watch; and the late Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon's daughter, Miss Helen Cannon of Danville, 111., "to be very quiet." Miss Cannon arrived early, to be the guest of Mrs. Jacob L. Loose...
...Draft Coolidge...