Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their real or imagined interests, and that in an independent course he was sure to be suspected or denounced. It was a state of subserviency which suited neither my pride nor my principles." He did get in a few final licks at the Republican Administration, speaking against a proposed draft law for 18-year-olds ("Our children are to be seduced from their parents"), and almost coming to arms with Henry Clay over a speech against the invasion of Canada. ("As it respects the Southern and Western men, they shall learn from me, if from no one else, that they...
...before the festival deadline; there was not even time for careful editing. But with money and time running out, Rossellini, whose reputation had been sliding downhill even before he ditched Ingrid Bergman for India's sloe-eyed Sonali Das Gupta, was forced to gamble on an unfinished draft. Despite the long odds...
Though convention draft must still be accepted by the I.C.A.O.'s general assembly next year, and ratified by each contracting country as a matter of treaty, legal experts who have been working on the problem since 1947 were delighted with the speed they have made so far, compared to the centuries in which maritime law evolved...
...news. If Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington had done anything newsworthy in the last month, it had certainly escaped the attention of most observers. Adlai Stevenson, returning from Europe, again denied that he was a presidential candidate, again left the door open to a draft-and managed a few sticks of type on the inside pages of some newspapers...
...Senator Homer Capehart of Indiana persuaded him to become secretary of an advisory committee to strengthen U.S. loan agencies. Brand helped draft the law that expanded the Export-Import Bank's role and lending authority, made it autonomous under a board of directors. He moved into the Eximbank as a director. In 1956 Brand performed his biggest coup by persuading a group of Government agencies and eleven private banks to grant an unprecedented $329 million loan to help stabilize the Argentine economy after Peron's fall...