Word: draft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Factories. Concurrently with a report that 150,000 were idle in Mos cow and were being kept alive on doles, came the news that the Bol shevik Government intends to permit business men to establish indus trial concerns. The only restrictions placed in a draft of the decree were that concerns employing or intending to employ more than 20 men must seek permission of the local Soviet to start operations. Those concerns, employing more than 200 men must make concessionary agreements with the Republic in which the concern is situate...
...Baldwin's previous crime was a refusal to submit to physical examination under the Draft Law. Federal Judge Mayer gave him a year. He served ten months at the Essex County Penitentiary...
...served until 1921, during the War doing good service on the Senate Military Affairs Committee, of which he became Chairman. He pushed the Selective Draft Bill ; he introduced a bill, early in 1918, for a War Cabinet and criticized the War Department freely. This brought him into contest with Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, and drew the wrath of Woodrow Wilson upon his head...
...Coast-Range Christ is of David Carrow, whose innocence knew only love for Christ. David spurned James O'Farrell's wife, fled the War draft, hid in the hills, praying. O'Farrell's wife, Iscariotwise, led a manhunt in the dark. When David took his fierce old father's bullet in the breast, a blinding apocalypse came down upon the hills...
...years later, he was reflected, and about at that time resigned his post on the Progressive National Commitee. In 1916, he was back in the Republican Party, taking an active part in the convention of that year - and was elected Representative-at-Large to Congress. There he helped to draft the Federal Budget Act. Meanwhile, his brother Robert, destined for politics, had turned to journalism and the Tribune...