Word: drafted
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Tennyaon is represented by a draft of "Vivien", one of the best known "Idylls of the King". Originally entitled "Nimue", the outline reveals many interesting alterations...
Something of the regard with which the English invested their ceremony is known to the Americans who have paused in the Library of Congress for a silent minute before the draft of the Declaration of Independence, and who remember that the British crown is one thousand years older. It is not surprising that outsiders did not catch the spirit of the moment, for the peculiar, insular English people were at the moment most solemn and most English. "Defender of the Faith" is one of the titles of their King, but the meaning of the phrase has changed. George...
...concluding session next day the Chamber authorized its directors to draft a program for amendment of the Wagner Act on nine points: 1) a curb on sit-down strikes; 2) prohibition of political contri-butions by unions; 3) outlawing of "intimidation" by unions; 4) limitation of picketing to "giving information"; 5) compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in public utilities; 6) prohibition of strikes by Government employes; 7) public registration of both employer and employe groups negotiating labor agreements; 8) definition of ''unlawful labor practices" under the Wagner Act; 9) establishment of the responsibility of Labor. Elected president...
...pegged to the U. S. dollar. In addition the Bank could furnish Cubans with credit to buy back their land from foreigners, run their businesses, put Cuba on its own financial feet. As a counter-move to Cuban American, the Chase Bank's Morgan took to Havana the draft of a speedily contrived plan whereby the Chase would do for Cuba what Cuban American proposed to do as a bank of issue, thus retaining for the Chase its dominant position. Further to checkmate the Chase, Promoter Greñas had the support of the Asociación National...
Robert Thane was second son to a pious Abolitionist farmer in Indiana. His older brother went to the war and came back minus an arm. But Robert might have waited for the draft if his hero-brother had not stolen his girl from him. When that happened, he went off hoping for death at the first cannon's mouth. Long before he got into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish...