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...Vinson Truman's Choice...
Chairman Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) announced that the Committee will hear amplifications of the report in closed sessions for the remainder of this week and will open the public hearings on January 15. This U.M.T. plan, originally drafted by a special civilian commission, will remain in committee until late February...
...President Truman bows out of the race and Eisenhower should prove to be unavailable, Douglas feels the Democratic nomination would be a tossup between Tennessee's Senator Kefauver, whom he termed "very splendidly qualified for the Presidency," and Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. He himself reiterated his oft-stated lack of Presidential ambitions. "No man," he said, "has ever declined a job more frequently that has never been offered him than I have...
...solution, up to now buried under piles of letters bemoaning the cruelty of all legislators who would send anyone under twenty into military service, was resurrected last Saturday by Representative Carl Vinson, head of the House Armed Services Committee. As a step toward launching a Universal Military Training system, he proposed a plan which would enable sixty thousand men in the seventeen-to-nineteen age bracket to volunteer for six months of training and eighteen months on active reserve. At least sixty thousand students could achieve some measure of certainty under this program, and it could be expanded into...
When Truman stepped off his airplane at Key West next day, the mournfully dignified countenance of Chief Justice Fred Vinson appeared behind him. Were Truman and Vinson discussing the candidacies of 1952? Not a word of politics was discussed, said Press Secretary Joe Short-at least not while he was listening...