Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 26 article, your statement that I presented a call for nullification at the caucus of Southern Senators at which the manifesto was first considered is entirely incorrect. The word nullification was not in the draft I presented and there was no such implication. Another error was in the statement that I elbowed my way back on the scene after writing of the final draft. The truth is I served on the final drafting committee at the request of Senator George, who acted as chairman of the caucus. You also stated that not a Southerner rose in reply...
...minute huddle over the rapidly tightening tension between Egypt and Israel in the Middle East. Together they blocked out a statement of the U.S. position. Ike mulled it over again as he flew south, ordered it issued (and copies sent to Israel and Egypt) after checking over a final draft in his vacation office at the Augusta National Golf Club...
Richard B. Merle, '57, Chairman of the Council's Committee, was reportedly forced into extra hours last night to get the final draft ready for the Council tonight and the CEP meeting tomorrow. Neither Merlo, nor Council President Edward M. Abramson, '57, were available last night for comment on the Report's recommendations...
...close was the congressional division on foreign affairs that a whole series of critical measures leading up to our entry into World War II prevailed by a majority of twenty votes or less in the lower house. In the case of the extension of the "peacetime" draft, three months before Pearl Harbor, the majority margin in the House of Representatives was a single vote. Even today, the cries of indignation and alarm which may be heard constantly on both sides of the political fence seem to the casual observer to contradict any assumption of popular agreement...
...Drafts for Commencement orations must be submitted by noon, April 16, at Holyoke House 10, Walter J. Bate, chairman of the Committee on Commencement Parts, announced last night. Two copies of the draft, an original and a carbon, must be submitted...