Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already Bill Knowland had met with fellow Republican congressional leaders at a nine-hour White House session, lunched with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, attended a bipartisan legislative conference at the White House, worked at reshuffling the Senate's Republican high command, helped draft a unanimous-consent agreement under which the Senate would debate a change in its rules, and assisted in writing a resolution paving the way for President Eisenhower's Middle East message to a joint session of Congress. All this was part of Knowland's job as leader of a Senate minority that...
...section 30, while former lettermen and Varsity Club members, current residents of section 30, retain their privileged seats. And if the "Food" report was gently termed "ill-advised" by its author, still, the "Growth" report was a thorough and serious argument against expansion. The dignity of the initial draft remains essentially uncompromised by the fact that the Council ground the report into a cornmeal johnnycake supporting "conditional expansion...
Though the reorganization will trim the strength of airborne divisions by one-third, and of infantry divisions by almost one-fifth, the Pentagon emphasized two points: 1) the plan does not lower the overall strength of the Army itself, or rule out future draft calls; 2) the changeover is no experiment in disarmament. Then, for old soldiers, a humane third point was added: history-rich regimental colors and numbers will somehow be preserved even in the pentomic...
...NATURAL-GAS BILL is being drafted by Texas oilmen, who are readying united-front to fight federal control of field gas prices. Oilmen will push bill in next Congress, hope to lessen opposition of consumer groups by including in draft a clause designed to protect gas users against overpricing...
AUGUST. Presley sings in Boston and thirty-seven mice stage a mass escape from the psycho labs beneath Mem Hall. Presley receives his draft notice and mass suicides follow. Russia gives Cecil B. DeMille rights to produce a film about the October revolution on location. Hemingway and Faulkner go on a fishing trip in the West Indies, come back with a new book entitled, "Beards, Booze, and Old Time Religion." Report sighting strange figure on raft, nude to waist, brandishing harpoon...