Word: draft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday Review thought that "There is no probability that Mr. Hoover will be even as tolerant of European weaknesses as is the present occupant of the White House," and agreed with the Nation that President-Elect Herbert Hoover must have seen and approved an advance draft of the President's speech...
...nationally known La-Follette brother is a young man to whom Wisconsin voters point with prophecy and pride every time there is an election. After LaFollette Sr.'s death, and again last spring, they said that Phil LaFollette would run for Governor. This year, at least, it was real "draft" talk. But he did not let it get very far. He insisted that he was "too young." (He is 31, two years younger than the Youngest Senator.) He wanted to go on with his teaching and his law practice. It was for that, and not to be "available" for greater...
...American Government feels, furthermore, that the terms of the Franco-British draft agreement, in leaving unlimited so large a tonnage and so many types of vessels, would actually tend to defeat the primary objective of any disarmament conference for the reduction or the limitation of armament in that it would not eliminate competition in naval armament and would not effect economy. For all these reasons the Government of the United States feels that no useful purpose would be served by accepting as a basis of discussion the Franco-British proposal...
...Dictator Mussolini approved last week the final draft of his famed "Parliamentary Reform Bill...
...bellowed and blustered militarism through the War; but she was quietly relieved when the draft board doctors said he really wasn't fit to fight...