Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, out of the pocket of Rhode Island Democrat Aime Forand came another proposal hastily whipped up by his fellow Democrats on the committee. The new draft served as a practical demonstration of the poles-apart recession philosophies of the Eisenhower Administration and many congressional Democrats. The Democratic proposal extended the expiration period to 24 months, beginning last June, when the recession was a pup. It provided a flat 16 weeks of federal payments, regardless of state compensation laws. It specified that the states need not repay the Federal Government. And to it, committee Democrats added a special fancy fillip...
...Deal." New York's old Dan Reed grunted that it was "panicky political irresponsibility." But on a key vote-whether to include the additional 900,000 unemployed-the Republicans lost to the committee majority, 14-7. In losing, however, they had solace. If the bill's final draft clears the Ways and Means Committee on schedule this week, it will face heavy opposition on the House floor. And in the Senate there will be the Finance Committee, where presides sharp-eyed, penny-conscious Democrat Harry Flood Byrd, a man with plenty of power and a longstanding aversion...
...occasion was the Seventh Congress of the Yugoslav Communist Party, held at Ljubljana, the bustling, Austrian-flavored capital of Slovenia. What got the Soviet back up was the draft program proposed by the Yugoslavs, which contained 1) the suggestion that the military blocs of both East and West are responsible for current world tensions, and 2) the hint that the Soviet Union, rather than "international capitalism," represents a threat to the Independence of the smaller Communist nations. In Moscow the Soviet magazine Kommunist angrily demanded extensive changes...
Emerging victorious from the biggest battle of the war, Strongman Fulgencio Batista prepared his positions for the next round. As shoppers once more filled peaceful Havana streets, the Cabinet decreed all public-service employees subject to military draft. That meant that if the rebels again threatened a general strike, President Batista could order some 250,000 workers in transport, communications, power, banks, hotels, government offices to stay on the job and, if need be, shoot them for desertion. Another decree stiffened penalties for censorship violations; for newsmen, foreign as well as Cuban, up to one year's imprisonment...
...determining attitudes of World War II. He missed the mark, but with the assistance of Director Edward Dmytryk and Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt. he has produced a broad and swiftly flowing film which carries on its narrative stream two performances-by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift -of unusually deep draft...