Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Conference, Seiior Pueyrredon has unalterably insisted it should make some definite pronouncement against high tariff barriers-that is to say, against high U. S. tariffs. By hard, driving diplomacy he got such a pronouncement tentatively recognized for insertion into the preamble of a stuffed-shirt treaty draft reorganizing the Pan-American Union.-Last week U. S. pressure resulted in the striking out of Pueyr-redon's preamble clause. From Buenos Aires came, allegedly, instructions that he should knuckle under and sign the treaty draft...
...Conference then began to draft a program of civil and military reorganization along strictly conservative lines...
...ticket-mate for Alfred Emanuel Smith. Wits in Kansas said a Smith-Jones ticket "would enlist the support of the country's two largest families." Colyumist George Rothwell Brown of the Washington Post wrote: "If Jones of Texas is nominated . . . with Smith, we advise the Republican party to draft Mr. Cohen...
Distinguished Colombian jurist and delegate Jesus M. Yepes announced, last week, that his delegation would lay before the Conference a draft treaty creating and giving "compulsory jurisdiction" to a Pan-American International Court of Justice...
...Chancellor (Premier) Dr. Wilhelm Marx pressed forward with a preliminary draft scheme which looks toward consolidation of the various German state governments in the interest of general administrative economy. This he presented to the Laenderkonjerenz, a council of the chief executives of all the 18 states which constitute the Republic of Germany, of which Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg is President...