Word: drafted
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Thus Benito and his ministers decided to dispose of No. 1 problem by instructing the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice to draft a bill regulating the activities of the press...
...American plan for limitation of armaments is called a "Draft Treaty of Disarmament and Security," and consists of five parts: Part I contains three articles making aggressive warfare an "international crime;" four articles forbidding and defining acts of aggression; two articles dealing with sanctions of an economic nature to be taken against an aggressor; two articles making the Permanent Court of International Justice sole arbiter of disputes under the Treaty...
...Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed to the draft of military service unless Capital and Labor were simultaneously drafted. Said Dr. Gray: "If the Government comes to my parsonage door and takes my two sons, sends them to foreign lands to fight in mud and give their lives, I am not going to stand aside and see the laymen...
...draft examinations of war times were a disappointing revelations. The average physical condition of the men was poor, and the mental alertness and energy were scarcely better. The training camps provide a month of hard, healthy, intelligent work. They are active recognition of the fact that book learning is a small part of education; that gool citizenship and high morale depend upon both mental and physical good health. They may do much to maintain a high domestic morale in a country, constantly, if not inevitably, subject to more or less peaceful invasion from Southern Europe and Russia. -Yale Daily News...
...discoveries of new defects in the American educational system, attention has centered largely on the work of secondary schools and universities. The other extreme of the system has been somewhat neglected; and the problem of illiteracy has slipped from the public mind. Yet the statistics gathered by the draft board indicated clearly that within the mass of people there were an amazing number of illiterates. Recent estimates have placed this figure as high as five millions...