Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generalities. Said he: "Detailed recommendations along the lines which I have indicated have been made to me by various departments and agencies charged with the execution of the present law. These are available for the consideration of the Congress, and, although not furnishing anything like a precise and finished draft of legislation, they may be helpful to you in your deliberations...
...chief to the infamous Trusts then coming to birth. He has declared that he was then absorbed in the legal aspects of his clients' problems, only later came to realize their social implications. But Root the Citizen took time from his $200,000-a-year practice to help draft an anti-corporation Constitution for New York State, to help Reformer Seth Low become Mayor of New York City on a platform attacking the street railway interests for which he himself was counsel...
...Europe received a new lead from the Four-Power Pact, conceived in progressive pessimism at Rome to get results by concrete agreements between small groups of states. Today a tempered revival of Locarno optimism, fused with post-Depression pragmatism, has evolved the momentous Eastern Locarno Pact now in the draft stages. Its signing and ratification by the Great Powers this year may put a constructive period to the confused Pact Decade...
...mounting mutual hate & fear of Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Red and anti-Republican. Symbol of this Franco-Russian bedding was Soviet Russia's admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian...
...draft resolutions prepared by the Executive Committee of the Club and dealing with foreign policy and public finance, will be presented to the Club members at a meeting in Kirkland House next Tuesday at 7.30 o'clock. At this meeting the Committee plans to held a parliamentary debate, after which the two resolutions will be amended to meet the approval of the Club as a whole. The remaining resolutions will be discussed at future meetings this month...