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...were forced to stop in the Yard the other day to take account of what was going on and revise some of our ideas about civilian undergraduates. We had thought that this group was composed of the halt, the lame and the blind, plus a handful of others whose draft boards had been a trifle lenient...
...hour later, at Albany's tiny airport, he boarded a chartered United Air Lines plane for Chicago. The plane had blue "Draft Dewey" stickers in the windows. Also aboard were Mrs. Dewey, Advisers Paul Lockwood, Jim Hagerty, Elliott Bell, Hickman Powell, and a handful of reporters and radiomen. Flying west, Tom Dewey put the finishing touches to his acceptance speech, ate a quick dinner of grilled steak, salad and coffee...
...months, Governor Warren had been consistent in his firm stand against campaigning for the nomination. But he had never finally shut the door against a draft. Not until the very eve of the balloting in Chicago, when Oregon asked to nominate him, did he give a final...
...Decision. But why had California's Governor allowed the "draft-Warren" movement to spread so far, so long? Best guess was that if the Republican Party had really needed him, he was willing to be had. His would have been a stronger name on the ticket than John Brickers. But when Bricker showed genuine Presidential strength on the Convention floor (in the delegates' hearts, if not in their ballots), it became good Dewey strategy to give Bricker the second place. Earl Warren, ready but reluctant to serve, stepped aside. In the months and years to come, he might...
...Vannevar Bush, director of the war-born Office of Scientific Research and Development, derives from OSRD's extraordinary effectiveness in World War II. Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal appointed the "Committee on Postwar Research" which last week began to draft plans for the new agency. The committeemen have all been active in OSRD...