Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until next summer, when a national students convention will be called, the Continuations Committee will be the entire works. Among its many functions it will draft a constitution for the prospective permanent National Students Organization...
Said Husband to London's Daily Mirror: "I saw Mr. Cripps [head of the Vagrancy Committee], and he is going to put my proposals to the Minister of Health. But this is only the beginning. I intend to draft a complete new 'Reform Bill for Casuals.' " Asked why he had taken to the open road, he said: "It is in the blood. My great aunt and uncle were missionaries in Africa...
Subcommittee Setback. Truculent Kuomintang fundamentalists seized the initiative in some of the subcommittees set up to study the draft constitution. Their most fiery leader was goat-bearded Kung Keng, 73, who discourses mystically and interminably on the relationship between chuan and neng-power and ability. Kung Keng said that these concepts were properly defined only in the specific constitutional directives of Kuomintang Founder Sun Yatsen. A tired Young China partyman disrespectfully shouted: "This is no place for orations." Kung Keng, who looks like a medieval wizard, but has a long revolutionary record, paled with anger. His supporters hurled abuse...
After military police restored order, Kung's men won on the vote-they amended Article 27 of the constitution draft, to give the future Assembly (and therefore the Kuomintang) almost absolute powers. Young China delegates and Democratic Socialists talked darkly of Kuomintang dictatorship, threatened to walk out of the Assembly. Cried the newspaper Ta Kung Pao: "The fundamental spirit of the constitution is shaking...
...week's end, the Bank's prestige had fallen so low that its directors supposedly called on Harry Truman to draft a man for the president's job. Their latest choice: Allan Sproul, 50, who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York but is not the kind of "name" the bank needed. While Sproul (rhymes with owl) was mulling over the offer, another name was dropped in the hat: Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson...