Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While everybody in Washington wanted to talk about MacArthur, Georgia's cagey and crusty Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, set out to pilot the controversial draft bill through the House. As usual, his performance was a lesson in skilled parliamentary maneuver. He knew that he couldn't get everything he wanted (like Universal Military Training), but he was determined to get as much as possible...
Patient and aggressive by turns, Carl Vinson gave ground where it hurt the least, bulled through the vital points, knocked down a host of emasculating amendments. A Republican attempt to put a 4,000,000-man limit on the armed forces was rejected; so was a move to require specific congressional approval before dispatching drafted troops to Europe...
...passed the Senate. Though U.M.T. is not directly involved in the new college deferment plan, it soon got caught up in the argument. The House, before it even got to a vote on U.M.T., made it illogically plain that it was inclined to drop the whole thing. Congressman Carl Vinson of Georgia, in charge of pushing U.M.T. through, hastily promised to support an amendment which would prohibit bright-boy deferments. But at week's end it seemed likely that his amendment had come too late to save U.M.T...
Debate on the floor opens again tomorrow when Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) will take his re-written measure back to the House. In the meantime, Selective Service is going ahead with its plans for deferment tests, though the Kilday amendment may makes them unusable...
...have plenty of alternate suggestions. On the Democratic side, he could think of half a dozen who fit the bill: Truman, Eisenhower (political affiliation unknown), Chief Justice Vinson, Senators Fulbright or Kefauver, or Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan ("who is coming up fast"). On the Republican side: Senators Saltonstall, Lodge, Duff, Ives, Morse, Aiken, or Governor Thomas Dewey...