Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of the grandsons (Henry II, Benson and William Clay, 22) to buck his grandfather's edict against smoking. Over family objections, he wangled his way into the Army as a private after he had twice been marked 4-F by his draft board (he is almost blind in one eye). He left the Army in January 1946, a captain in the Air Forces...
Entertainment by a proposed society of hosts, titled the "Crimson Key," will bring local hospitality to visiting musclemen and dignitaries up to recognized Ivy League and human standards, if and when the draft constitution, prepared by a group of students brought together under erstwhile varsity football manager William P. Hall '46, is accepted by the College...
Thirty-six hours after the announcement, the Draft Eisenhower League finally gave in. National Chairman Stuart Scheftel resigned and asked all state chapters to disband. Six other members of the league's national board swung their support to Harold Stassen. Around Feb. 15, Eisenhower was expected to leave the War Department, as planned, and move on to the presidency of Columbia University...
...Eisenhower, who will quit his chief-of-staff duties on Feb. 15, acted as if he were beginning to enjoy the political rumpus. In Philadelphia last week to lay a wreath on Benjamin Franklin's grave, he was stopped by a man who proudly showed him a "Draft Eisenhower" button in his lapel. The General said: "Take that thing off and throw it away." But he wore his widest grin as he said...
This week, the Draft-Eisenhower League announced that it would also enter Ike in the Pennsylvania primary on April 27. Pennsylvania's 73 convention votes would cut plenty...