Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scholarly Vladimir Koretsky, Soviet professor of international law, was worried about Western notions of free speech and other rights of man last week. In a quiet corner at Lake Success, where a U.N. committee is trying to draft an International Bill of Rights, Koretsky scented a tendency to put the individual ahead of the state...
...brought in an era of draft calls, which depleted our 'typesetting staff, and of crisis journalism with its bad news breaks and late news. The late Adolf Hitler was forever making a major move on weekends. Pearl Harbor happened on Sunday and V-J Day was on a Tuesday. Inasmuch as our deadline is midnight Monday, interruptions like these meant that the 'typesetters, who are always the last to leave, shared with the rest of the editorial department the headaches of late closings...
...military would have charge of the actual training, but an overall commission of two civilians and one military man would be in command. Local boards, like draft boards, would register the neighbors' sons. Other civilian boards would keep constant watch on the welfare of the trainees. Army men might find civilian participation a little thick...
Last week the President also: ¶ Sent to Congress the draft of a bill permitting the U.S. to train & arm her sister republics of the Western Hemisphere, a step long urged by the War & Navy departments, vigorously opposed by some factions of the State Department...
...minute May was urging an ordnance colonel to "get a nice, big contract" for his good friends Murray and Henry Garsson to manufacture artillery shells. The next, he was demanding draft deferment for an acrobat friend of Murray Garsson. Then he was back to see if the Garssons could not get an Army contract to build wooden watertanks...