Word: draft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the first Wilson "Peace Prize"* (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) and British delegate on the Preparatory Commission, described the Commission's "progress" last week in optimistic terms. Said he: "The Commission has carried out its assignment. ... It has drawn up a scheme [the "Draft Treaty of Disarmament"] for the reduction and limitation of armaments. . . . While it is true that the figures quantitatively representing armaments remain to be filled in; and, while this must prove a task of great difficulty, still broad outlines have been established. . . . Reservations have been made by various countries and alternative...
...times that number. During our trip into Arkansas we were constantly passing rickety wagons, carts and occasional autos holding the families of the refugees, and all the worldly possessions they had been able to save. Chairs, beds, tables, springs, and poultry seemed to have been piled helter-skelter. The draft animals looked very poor and scrawny, and there were so many people moving that it seemed almost like a migration...
...what Major General Crowder did in his usual working hours between 7:30 a. m. and midnight? Among other things, he was onetime Judge Advocate General (legal head) of the U. S. Army and its ablest lawyer in many a year. He was the chief author of the selective draft law? an achievement as difficult as it was unpopular. In Cuba, he ably unraveled another thankless knot. As one of the makers of its organic law, as personal representative of President Harding, as U. S. Ambassador since 1923, no man has done more to take the chaos out of Cuba...
...their political beliefs partly upon the contention that since their conviction, important new evidence has developed sufficient to justify a retrial. Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, quoting from the trial records, point out 815?. Prosecutors Katzmann and Williams stressed the facts that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti had ln 1917, dodged the draft by going to Mexico, that both were Reds of the most crimson hue. Cross-examining Mr. Sacco, District Attorney Katzmann drew from him a long speech, in whose broken, halting English the law-abiding Massachusetts gentlemen of the jury heard a Communist's brief for Communism. Said Mr. Sacco...
...volume that he had written. It contained "epigrams" like the ones Charles Archbold of the National Refining Co. writes for the slate which the wooden boy holds up in front of National Refining gasoline stations. Samples of Sir Charles Frederick's wit: "Love is fanned by a bank draft"; "Crossed cheques cheer cross women"; "A leaf began the fall"; "A little blonde is a dangerous thing"; "There is no fool like an old fool -unless it is a young one"; "Some cats have nine wives"; "Chickens should be well dressed...