Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsenhower wrapped himself in mystery. At a press conference in New Hampshire he declared: "I don't want anything to do with politics." The same day, in Washington, Major General Floyd L. Parks, the Army's publicity boss, had issued a blast against the Draft-Eisen-hower-for-President League (TIME, Sept. 22). He also dropped a hint that Ike might not be out of uniform until next April, instead of on Jan. 1, as expected. Many a political observer had come to the conclusion that Ike wants nothing to do with the nomination unless it comes...
Armed with a proposed draft constitution prepared by Frederic D. Houghteling '50, the College's five-man delegation to the first Northern New England regional conference of the Natural Student Association will journey to Mount Holyoke today intent on "getting NSA off to a solid start in this vicinity...
...looking for a sultry, sexy female--who can sing," Robert E. Herman '50 said yesterday. Herman, leader of the first undergraduate dance band hereabouts since the famous "Gold-Coasters" succumbed to the draft, announced that his 11-piece unit would supply the music for the Dunster House Saturday evening...
...Manhattan, the amateurish Draft-Eisenhower-for-President League granted its 17th and 18th state charters (to chapters in New York and Massachusetts). It also began passing out buttons ("I Like Ike") and got all tangled up in the political doubletalk of the week: "We want to keep away from any implication that he is a candidate. Though he hasn't said he won't be, he definitely has said he isn't." In New Haven, barnstorming Henry Wallace back-patted Ike as a "singularly enlightened man," predicted that he could win the presidency on either ticket, would...
...under consideration for the Holyoke mission, Frederick D. Houghteling '50 has been asked to present a preliminary constitutional draft for the Saturday N.S.A. organizational convention...