Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin State: "Instruct a commission. . . to elaborate a draft of a ruling for every type of school. The ruling must have a categoric and absolutely obligatory character for pupils as well as for teachers. This ruling must be the fundamental document . . . which strictly establishes the regime of studies and the basis for order in the school as well as the rules of conduct of pupils inside and outside of school. . . . Introduce in all schools a uniform type of pupils' report card on which all the principal rules for the conduct of the pupil are to be inscribed. Establish...
...last week's biggest-sounding resolution came from an unexpected source. The American Legion, which last year soothed N.E.A. by withdrawing its support of the hated teachers' oath legislation of 27 States, appeared in the person of Oklahoma's eloquent Senator Josh Lee, who demanded a "draft of all money and materials of war as well as men." Stealing Teachers College thunder, the Legion Schoolmasters hustled a resolution to that effect past the Resolutions Committee directly to the floor. Having passed it with only four dissenting votes, the superintendents began audibly to wonder whether they had voted...
...President. The kernel of his message came when he read, "I therefore earnestly recommend . . . the appointment of additional judges in all Federal courts, without exception, where there are incumbent judges of retirement age who do not choose to retire or resign." This meant, according to the draft of the bill which he sent with his message, that he would be empowered to appoint not more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated by the President to the press, and in the draft bill masterfully underemphasized...
...Line-Up. When copies of the President's message, with the proposed Judiciary-Reform Bill attached, were distributed in the House, opportunistic little Representative Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex. quickly tore off the mimeographed draft of the bill, signed his name to it and dropped it in the hopper. So doing he stole a march on other ardent New Dealers in Congress, most of whom were immensely pleased by the President's move. Newshawks who immediately made surveys of Congressional sentiment agreed that the bill would be passed without serious difficulty. Save for routine Republican objections, little...
...disgust after one term in the U. S. Senate (1909-15). Devoting himself to the role of Elder Statesman, he became a member of The Hague Court, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, won the Nobel Peace Prize, was called by the League of Nations to help draft the plans of the World Court...