Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first venture in political life as a youth was fighting the Chicago traction interests."* Some professors at the University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From...
...Gulick, 46, is director of the Institute of Public Administration and a professor at Columbia. A Republican, he helped draft President Roosevelt's executive Reorganization plan. One of his hobbies is invention, one of his inventions, a voting machine...
...permitted Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau to draft a program for extracting France from her financial difficulties by drastic measures of "exchange control" and "guided economy." Former Premier Leon Blum cracked: "I would laugh if it were the time to laugh!" For what Paul Marchandeau had not wanted the Blum Left to do, he now urged as a measure of the Centre...
Canadian Prime Minister King was on a West Indies holiday last week, and Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir announced after the Prime Minister's return that a committee headed by Mr. King will begin to draft an itinerary to be followed by Their Majesties in North America...
...sparsely attended H. S. U. meeting in Leverett House last night, a draft of new Student Union constitution was discussed at some length prior to submission to the general membership for ratification...