Word: drafted
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Died. Hu Han-min, 52, most potent champion of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Canton, China. Friend and disciple of the late great Sun Yatsen, he helped draft China's constitution, codified its basic laws, opposed Chiang Kai-shek's direct methods. Arrested and forced into exile, he returned to China last February on Chiang's invitation...
...birth control legislation now pending in Congress." Sent to a committee the resolution quickly struck a snag. A subcommittee found it was "artfully drawn" in that "indorsement" was a misleading word for some birth control pronouncements mentioned in it. After killing this memorial the subcommittee set to work to draft its own views...
...Formally Refuse." To London simultaneously rushed a pair of the Wilhelmstrasse's ablest practitioners of diplomacy, smartsters who have helped Adolf Hitler draft his more considered speeches. These were Herr Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff and Dr. Friedrich Gaus, whom any professional diplomat would recognize as aces in their line. They said that Dr. Gaus had made the discovery, after analyzing all treaties concerned, that legally the League cannot punish Germany's present treaty violations by sanctions. This "discovery" the Poles, though they have a ten-year non-aggression pact with Hitler, greeted by sarcastically remarking in London, "Germany...
...poem "After." This copy was retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket by the late Sara Norton, of Cambridge, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton '46, and friend of the Kiplings. Miss Norton was visiting the Kiplings in 1897 at the time Kipling was writing "Recessional" and when he threw a draft of the poem into the wastebasket, she recovered the page, and the author allowed her to keep...
Fortnight ago the Administration got together in Washington a meeting of farm leaders to approve the New Deal's new plan for agriculture: crop control through soil conservation (TIME, Jan. 20). While AAA's lawyers were busy trying to draft a workable law, trouble was brewing at the Capitol. Farm leaders who rubber-stamped the New Deal's idea were already calling on Congressmen to advocate other proposals. One group wanted to take 30% of customs receipts to subsidize exports. Another group advocated guaranteeing farmers their cost of production. A third group demanded enactment of the domestic...