Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting No. 7. Dirksen picked up the draft statement from its authors, repaired to the Senate cloakroom, where he huddled in Meeting No, 7 with McCarthy, Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused Zwicker, 2) agree that Stevens had been given assurances of McCarthy's future good conduct, and 3) hint that calling Army officers in the Peress case might not be necessary...
Meeting No. 8. Stevens and his Pentagon advisers met and drafted another statement. Acting Secretary Kyes, a massive man of massive will, took charge. He summoned Stevens to his office and said: "We're going to the White House." Kyes and Stevens crossed the Potomac, joined the still-cerebrating Meeting No. 5, which was now augmented by Presidential Chief of Staff Sherman Adams and others. While the conferees in the Cabinet Room sweated over their draft, President Eisenhower was practicing pitch shots on the nearby White House lawn. When Meeting No. 6 had finished its labors, it found...
...Peress, a New York City dentist, was commissioned as an Army Reserve captain under the doctors' draft...
...Along with 7,000 other doctors and dentists, Peress was promoted under an amendment to the doctors' draft law calling for a general readjustment of grades based on a restudy of civilian medical experience. The Army's promotion hand did not seem to know or care that the Army's investigation hand was reaching for Peress' shoulder...
Last week politicians of the Republican People's Party, which opposes Bayar's Democratic Party, denounced Lawyer Ball as "a tool of the oil interests," and criticized his draft as too freehanded with Turkey's oil. The investment law has also been a target for such political potshots as: "Why don't the Democrats introduce those two laws in the original English? It would save translation costs...