Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Richard Russell, with amendments by Florida's Spessard Holland and Texas' Price Daniel and polishing by Arkansas' highly polished J. William Fulbright, a liberal hero. At that point Strom Thurmond elbowed his way back onto the scene, posed for photographers dictating the final draft-with which he had nothing to do-to his wife seated at a typewriter...
Boston Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams, yanked out of baseball for 17 months when the Marine Corps sent him off to fly combat missions in Korea in 1952, sounded a wrathful cry over the plight of Johnny Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams...
...frequent writers of the show and a Harvard grad, class of '49, was assigned to do the script. By the end of January, he had a preliminary outline done. Until three weeks ago, he constantly revised and tightened this up. The he started writing his final draft...
Eliminating the notorious "which" clause of the 1954 draft, that would have required legislation to make a treaty effective as internal law, the Brickerites hope to slide the new proposal through Congress and the State legislatures with little or no friction...
...supporters of the new proposal must surely realize this. They must also realize that such an amendment, through an obstructionist interpretation, could become an embarrassing and serious impediment to the Executive's treaty-making powers. In this way, the Brickerites hope to accomplish what the 1954 draft attempted to do: to subject executive foreign dealings to increased review and restraint...