Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last November Australia's Communist newspaper The Tribune had a scoop: the details of a draft treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the U.S. and Australia. The treaty, which has been in the works for five years, contained no vital secrets, but the affair was nevertheless alarming: it suggested that a high government official with access to the classified treaty had given the information to the Reds. In Parliament later, Australia's foreign minister, Richard Casey, admitted the leak. (Although Casey denied the connection, members' questions pointed to one John Burton, a former top official under...
...much as she had paid in. It didn't sound like much of a deal, but within an hour Teacher Burke had not only bought it, but authorized Cotter to take the money out of her bank account each month by simply presenting a sight draft...
...wrinkle in the draft policy came this week when General Hershey brought up the subject of college men who married and became fathers during their academic career. He felt that the public would rebel at such men getting "permanent deferment...
...their state convention at Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, to choose a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator. They needed a man of stature to beat popular, liberal Republican Irving Ives (just renominated by the G.O.P.), and to keep Ike Eisenhower from carrying the state in November. They tried to draft Averell Harriman, whose presidential campaign had struck a few sparks. Harriman, with his eyes apparently on other goals, refused. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. might have had the nomination, but Congressman Roosevelt is saying himself for the 1954 campaign for governor. The bosses pondered over Robert Wagner Jr., borough president...
...Directives for the Fifth Five-Year Plan-which was actually started in 1951 -will be "approved" by the Congress. The 10,000-word draft seems to show that Stalin wants the Russian production machine to churn on pretty much as before. The plan calls for an overall production increase of 70%. As before, the lion's share of that is to be heavy industrial production. Even if the Five-Year Plan reaches its targets (actually, the percentages given by Russian statisticians have only a remote relation to reality), Russian production will still be far behind the U.S.-approximately where...