Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after the IUS was formed, 1947, delegates from student governments met at Madison, Wisconsin to draft the constitution of the USNSA. The student organization that was to emerge was new in name and structure, but in spirit a descendent of the student organization of the thirties, the National Student Federation of America. The President of NSFA in 1932 had been a young man named Edward R. Murrow; its last congress in 1940 had been organized by Orville Freeman, now Governor of Minnesota...
...candles flared. The first draft of The Prophet...
This group, in a report now being prepared, will give the Student Council reasons for its recommendations, and the Council will in turn debate the N.S.A. issue this fall. Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61, chairman of the group, said it had met twice since the convention and would draft its report within two weeks...
Without Trying. At a press conference, Stevenson reiterated his "no candidate" stand-with a notable escape clause. "Time and time and time again I have said that I am not a candidate. If you ask about a draft and things of that sort-these things I have not yet contemplated." After a call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote...
...Socialists at their own game, the Tories have increased expenditures on the welfare state by four billion dollars annually. Fulfilling a promise which the Labourites declared visionary in the 1955 election, over two million houses have gone up under the housing program. And finally, the Tories are ending the draft this year. Not surprisingly, the Conservative theme has been "Life Is Better with the Conservatives. Don't Let Labour Ruin...