Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration has never made ringingly clear where it is headed in foreign aid after this year. Said Richards: "Germany is lagging on rearmament. France is using NATO divisions and NATO equipment in North Africa. Great Britain is cutting down her own defense establishment and talking about abolishing the draft. Italy is talking with emphasis on economic and not military aid from now on. If that's going to be the attitude we'd better slow up before sending good money after...
...awakening country at every major international conference, at almost every major capital. A graduate of Columbia University, he was Minister to Washington at 28; he was three times China's Foreign Minister, once its Prime Minister, once its Finance Minister. He is one of two living diplomats* who drafted the League of Nations Covenant in 1919; nearly a quarter century later he helped draft the U.N. Charter...
...delegation of Singaporeans, including both Marshall and Lee, presented British Colonial Secretary Lennox-Boyd (see box) with a demand for full control of Singapore's internal affairs. When the British showed no disposition to turn over Singapore's police to the local government, Marshall slapped down a draft bill for Singapore's full independence, with the last word on internal security resting with the Singaporeans. Said he: "I am resigning immediately unless I get my proposals accepted...
When in 1950 Congress offered to let Puerto Rico write its own constitution, MunÕz helped draft it and happily saw it approved, 375,000 to 83,000. The constitution makes Puerto Rico self-governing in local affairs, gives it a relationship to the U.S. defined in the official Spanish term as Estado Libre Asociado (Free Associated State); the official translation is Commonwealth. Congress' laws, notably the draft, apply to Puerto Rico, but because the island has no vote in Con gress it is spared the income...
...runaway birth rate combined with a death rate lower than the mainland's-plus a parade of labor from the increasingly efficient farms-pours 20,000 workers a year into the market. In the short run, only by heavy emigration to the mainland and the Army's draft has Puerto Rico been able to keep unemployment from rising despite Bootstrap. In the long run, Bootstrap's higher living standards may help importantly; statistics show that the birth rate drops with every increase in family income and education...