Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Convention. When Franklin Roosevelt's chosen platform-maker, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, arrived last week in Philadelphia, he solemnly assured inquirers that he did not bring with him a platform ready-made at the White House. Some days earlier Democratic Senators had been shown the draft of the platform, but Senator Wagner had either left it behind in Washington or tactfully destroyed it. All that he brought to Philadelphia, hidden under his coat or in his mind, were the individual planks, neatly cut to fit and ready to be nailed together...
...Power Co. She worked on Gone With the Wind for seven years. When a publisher's representative cried to see the manuscript she told him that she was merely "playing around with the idea of doing a novel some time or other" and then showed him a first draft of Gone With the Wind that stood almost shoulder-high...
With all France in a labor ferment the three good & great women had opportunity last week to do little more than assure reporters of their triple determination to draft and urge the enactment of specific laws for the benefit of French education, science and children. A heavy cross for Undersecretary for National Education Cécile Brunschvicg to bear is the fact that her immediate superior, Minister of National Education Jean Zay, is a most arrant Radical Socialist, author of perhaps the most defamatory poem ever written about a national flag, the red-white-&-blue French tricolor. It appears impossible...
Until last week the All-Union Soviet Congress was scheduled to meet next month and adopt a new Soviet Constitution (TIME, June 15). Abruptly this date was postponed to Nov. 25 and citizens throughout vast Russia were invited to send suggestions for improving the Constitution's draft text. As it stood temporarily last week, Russia's proposed new charter aimed to correct such abuses as the Soviet's present suppression of free speech and freedom of the press, spying upon citizens' mail and failure to provide either universal suffrage or secrecy of the ballot. Chairman...
...year-old Robert Houghwout Jackson, now an Assistant Attorney General whom New Dealers regard with fond eyes for his work as assistant general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (TIME, March 4, 1935 et seq.). More likely possibilities, if Governor Lehman refuses to accede to a frantic '"draft" movement which developed in the wake of his announcement, are Senator Royal Copeland; New York's Attorney General John James Bennett