Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until the House acts on President Eisenhower's Military Reserve Program, however, the Senate will not act on the extension of Selective Service. The bill. If accepted in its present from, will keep the present draft law in effect for four years...
...established. In the Yalta argument about U.N. Charter details, Roosevelt and Stalin put the emphasis on the big power approach, leaving it for Churchill, the "imperialist," to defend, sometimes warmly, sometimes cynically, the rights of small nations before the law. Russian objections to U.S. voting-procedure sections of the draft charter foreshadowed the lawless future course of Communist policy; but all arguments over the charter came back to the familiar door, the necessity of total Big Three cooperation and agreement...
Thus Stalin had his prize in hand. Two days later Molotov handed to Harriman a draft of Stalin's political conditions. With Roosevelt's approval Harriman suggested some changes. Most important: Port Arthur should be internationalized. Stalin came personally to Harriman, and what followed is reported by Harriman...
While most of the current talk about capital gains concerns stock market profits, the provisions of the tax actually cover a variety of operations; e.g., proceeds from the sale of timber, profits from the sale of livestock used for breeding, draft or dairy purposes, gains from coal royalties...
Dean Bundy, citing the draft and increased selectivity of admissions as causes of this attitude, pointed out, "We have tried quite hard to dispel the idea that grades alone are used in deciding matters like scholarships." He urged students to take advantage of the College's many distinguished authorities by taking the courses that they give for the sake of learning...