Word: draft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Influential in much automobile financing (Dodge, General Motors, Hudson), he told the Board of Tax Appeals in 1927 that he had thrice offered Henry Ford $1,000,000,000 for Ford Motors. He died the day after the New York Stock Exchange adopted its new constitution, which he helped draft...
Died. Heber Manning Wells, 78, first Governor of Utah (1895-1904); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Salt Lake City. Ex-Governor Wells, son of a Mormon patriarch, helped draft Utah's State constitution, helped achieve Utah's Statehood, which had been delayed because of polygamy...
...find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend the resolution. At the week's end as the harassed leaders of the National Education Association prepared to draft a bill, it appeared that the battle over Federal aid had merely been shifted to Washington...
Rare volumes and letters from the pen of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library. A feature of the display is a manuscript draft of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Aurora Leigh," bequeathed to Harvard by Miss Amy Lowell. A letter in which Mrs. Browning referred in 1841 to her famous dog, Flush, is also shown. She wrote that the dog had torn a book into fragments, "like a critic," and added, "But how could he know any better? There's an apology for the critics...
Next to ice in his whiskey & soda, the thing an Englishman dislikes most is a draft from an open window. So last week when barristers and jurors complained of drafts to Mr. Justice Humphreys at the Winchester assizes, the bewigged justice gave heed, dismissed court. In 20 hours, at a cost of ?100, a crew of 22 carpenters and electricians equipped the room with a new heating system, screens, air ventilators, false ceiling. Next day the session was resumed. The room was sweltering. One juror fainted. "Now," bellowed the exasperated justice, "the courtroom...