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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Ministers' deputies were instructed to draft an Austrian treaty and submit it to their bosses no later than Sept. i. During the next U.N. Assembly session in New York in September, the Big Four would try to arrange for another Foreign Ministers' meeting. This was what diplomats call "keeping the door open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Limited Truce | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...depend on others. It is surprising how many men in Washington have never learned how to handle anything themselves, and depend on other people to shape up the work. The one thing McCloy has never had to do is to depend on somebody else to do his draft ing; he can do it better himself and he knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: We Know the Russians | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Mahoney's method of setting things straight was quite senatorial. He introduced a bill. The bill would permit manufacturers to absorb freight charges and quote delivered prices, provided they were "acting independently," i.e., without collusion. The Senate, which has been trying to draft a bill for months to end the confusion, gave a sigh of relief at these plain words. It quickly passed the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Clearing the Air | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Conscientious Ejector. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., Draft Violator Joseph Graigmyle explained why he had run away from his cow-milking job at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution: "I found out the milk was going to Fort Bliss, and I don't believe in helping the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...draft may be a forgotten thing for most undergraduates, but for Business and Law School professors it is still very real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School Teacher Gets Job with ECA | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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