Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other goals which the Legion set for itself last week: 1) no U. S. entry into the League of Nations; 2) collection of War debts; 3) universal draft of men, money and industry to "deprofitize" war; 4) expanded national defense. Also tucked away in the list of resolutions to be presented to Congress next session was one demanding,"that in no event shall the widows and orphans of World War veterans be without Government protection." A "widow" was defined as one who had married a War veteran prior to July 3, 1931, or married him after that date and lived...
...Generalissimo of the Revolution, General Franco announced: "We want a national government and intend to assure all classes in Spain a chance to draft a Liberal constitution assuring justice for middle-class property owners as well as for the working class. ... We propose that long-needed social reforms shall actually be pushed forward in Spain. . . . We started the revolt only after it had become self-evident that the Government was playing into the hands of the Communists and extreme Socialists and that there was no justice for others. The aims of the National Revolution are to restore peace, justice...
...common stock and the preferred dividend was pared from $7 to $2 per share. In the June quarter this year the preferred dividend was fully earned, with enough left over to show earnings of 75? per share on the common. But the conservative directorate, having duly considered the past "draft on undivided surplus" and the vast program of plant improvement now under way, decided to husband their profits, voted a quarterly preferred payment of $1 per share, double the recent rate but still short of the regular...
...daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon he played his favorite game, tacking into shallow water, dodging among rocky islands where his deep-draft escorts could not follow. Vastly relieved were his guardians when the Sewanna hove back in sight after half-an-hour and they heard the President's great laugh ringing across the waters...
...party to the Dardanelles convention was Germany, but Nazi authorities promptly hit the ceiling on reading the draft of the proposed Montreux pact, claimed that its concessions to Russia completely upset the balance of power. Germany claimed that before a war between Russia and Germany the Soviets would have plenty of time to move their Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean and around to the Baltic, thus getting an unfair headstart on the German Navy. Openly Nazis threatened to tear up their agreement to limit their fleet to 35% of the British Navy unless something was done about this contingency...