Word: draft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a special committee which is to draft the revised measure opened meetings in Washington. To see how the tentative increases in postal rates had worked out, it summoned Postmaster General New to testify...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?A bitter, bitter draft of a New England brew, concocted by that most artistic distiller of sour drinks, Eugene O'Neill...
...Tribune. With each installment, he printed an apology for possible error. ". . . I am not offering these memoirs as absolute fact, but as my impression and belief at the time." Nevertheless, critics swarmed last week when one installment was printed, describing General Bullard's experiences with the 92nd (Negro, draft) Division which formed part of his (Second) Army during the last few weeks...
...Council, last week, Mr. Smith said that there would be a budgetary surplus for the year ending June 30 and that consequently not one heller (1/100 of a crown) of" the 100,000,000 reserve had been utilized. Moreover, he averred that he could draft a budget for the coming year that would show a surplus. Excellent prospects for agriculture, the mainstay of the Hungarian Kingdom, were also reported...
...important speech uttered was a fiery one from Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. In a bitter tirade against the Entente Powers, lie attacked them for the non-evacuation of Cologne, for alleging that Germany had been secretly arming without; and, in the course of five months, not being able to draft a note containing specific charges "in such a form that they could deliver it." He affirmed emphatically that Germany was disarmed, calling all reports to the contrary "ridiculous inventions...