Word: drafted
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...making power, the framers of the Constitution were reacting to some extent against current British theory and practice. According to historical tradition, he war-power was one of the main royal prerogatives--the king himself had the authority to take the nation into war. Thus the final draft of the Constitution contained the provision that the United States Congress alone could declare war, Hamilton, in the Federalist, made a great point of minimizing the President's powers as Commander-in-Chief and stressed the fact that Congress was empowered to raise and regulate military forces, as well as declare...
...basis of quotations from Molotov's speech, it does not appear to me that black scare headlines are justified," he said. "Apart from a repetition of the charges against the U.S. already presented by the Soviet Union in substance with its draft resolution for the Security Council of the U.N., there is a reference to atomic weapons which is more boastful than threatening...
Rembrandts & Doorkeys. During World War II, Rubinstein achieved his greatest public notoriety with his efforts to escape the draft. He was able to get his Selective Service classification changed 15 times, and each time he reverted to 1-A; with the help of influential friends, he got away. He finally met defeat, in the form of a two-year sentence and a $50,000 fine for draft evasion. While he was in Lewisburg Penitentiary his wife divorced him for, among other misdemeanors, knocking her unconscious and ripping off her clothes (last week in California, Laurette described Serge as "very kind...
After pondering the problem, Entomologist E.F. Knipling, U.S.D.A., had an idea. The male flies, he mused, hunt and catch the females with singleminded enthusiasm. Why not draft the males into the extermination service...
Deputy. In Newark, the FBI arrested Anthony Steven Profetto, 20, after Profetto, to evade Selective Service, sent a one-legged friend to substitute for him m a draft-board physical...