Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight years the U. S. Government has been struggling to solve the problem of unemployment but not until last summer did Congress act to find out how many-people in the U. S. are unemployed. Columnist Hugh Johnson suggested a compulsory registration along the lines of the World War draft. Massachusetts' young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. proposed a $20,000,000 door-to-door census. In the rush of legislation at its session's end, Congress passed a bill which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind...
...further Government role by Dr. Schacht-even as Acting Minister of Economics-is out of the question!" Last week at the Ministry for Propaganda and National Enlightenment, headed by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a bitter rival of General Goring, word was put about that "Hitler has turned down the draft text of a 'hold for release' press announcement of Dr. Schacht's resignation on the ground that nothing has been decided...
...dated Aug. 1, 1868. When Alaska's voteless Delegate to Congress, Anthony Dimond, last week asked permission to transfer the check to Juneau for permanent display in that capital's Historical Library and Museum, General Accounting Office authorities were forced shamefacedly to announce that the historic draft -long since canceled and filed in the U. S. archives-had been unaccountably mislaid...
...Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy to Juneau and dispatch the draft itself, for safekeeping, to the brand-new National Archives Building...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan...