Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pounding home the point that Republican "peace, prosperity, progress" are visible facts for all 179 million Americans to see and experience. The Democrats were ready to challenge both prosperity and progress with an economic issue of their own-that the balanced budget is no substitute for forced-draft national growth (see Democrats). The U.S.'s lag in the space race had brought such extraterrestrial matters as satellites and lunar probes into the orbit of political oratory. And the solid issue of peace had suddenly been turned into the hottest political question of the early campaign: Is the Administration...
...himself was still there on the sidelines, refusing to campaign but admittedly available in case of a convention draft. The loyal, devoted, hopeful friends of 1952 and 1956 were still loyal and devoted-but no longer very hopeful. By last week Democratic politicos and amateurs alike were generally writing off Adlai Stevenson as a serious possibility for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination...
...best indication of Stevenson's fadeout came from Attorney James Doyle of Madison, Wis., a longtime Stevenson friend and advocate, who last fortnight sent out word of an important press conference to announce the formation of a national draft-Stevenson movement, with himself as chairman and chief strategist. But by the time of the press conference last week, Jim Doyle had changed his tune. There would be no draft movement, he said, no Stevenson organization of any kind. His advice to the faithful: "Each Stevenson supporter must decide for himself whether to vote for Humphrey or Kennedy, or simply...
...Stevenson. Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence, one of the last of the Northern Democratic bosses inclined toward Stevenson, last week flew to Springfield, Mo. to pay public tribute to Missouri's Stuart Symington. Said one former Stevenson follower (now actively campaigning for Kennedy): "There's no draft without an organization. No campaign, no candidate...
Heads of the University-wide drama groups have seen the draft and a revised version is being circulated to the Faculty Committee on Dramatics...