Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour law because he thought it would hurt the little businessman, then supported it. He is against Big Labor and labor monopolies; against the secondary boycott, the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining. Nevertheless, it was he who first stood up and fought Harry Truman's proposal to draft striker's into the Army. His main objective in the Taft-Hartley Act was to restore the legal balance between labor and management...
Died. Robert Lee Williams, 79, Oklahoma's first chief justice (1907-09), third governor (1915-19), longtime U.S. judge (1919-37); of diabetes and a heart ailment; in Sherman, Tex. "Fighting Bob," a rough-&-tumble courtroom battler, helped draft Oklahoma's constitution (1906-07), then dominated its legal scene until his retirement...
Four student speakers, a minister, and a former Civil Liberties Union head blasted University Military Training, the draft, and the "current war hysteria," interrupted by a highly vocal opposition group and short circuits in the public address system...
...Those who released the document," Salvemini said, "did not delete my signature and also kept signatures of many other persons who signed the primitive draft thinking it was the final text. In addition, it was falsely stated that I was the author of the document of which they had become responsible...
...would never have thought it possible that even Communists and fellow travellers would have recourse to such tricks as publishing a tentative draft as a final document authorized by the man who had drawn up a different final text, and then signing it with names collected under false pretenses," Salvemini insisted...