Word: drafted
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Brandeis style was to draft long memorandums, and feed them indirectly to government bureaucrats: he often forwarded such written position papers to Frankfurter, then (in the 1920s) a Harvard Law Professors who could and often did insert Brandeis arguments under his and other names in the Harvard Law Review. It was Brandeis who urged Frankfurter to write John Maynard Keynes asking him to address Roosevelt publicly helping further the massive public works projects Brandeis favored so strongly Frankfurter's style was to schedule meetings with prominent leaders--using a Supreme Court office that many of his aides never knew about...
...earlier justice's famous "Brandeis briefs"--filled with sociological statistics and often devoid of constitutional argument helped further his populist ends, and that Frankfurter's deferential judicial attitude toward most legislative judgements helped establish the constitutionality of many New Deal programs he favored and often had quietly helped to draft...
Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...
...speech derided the no-first-use policy as "tantamount to making Europe safe for conventional aggression." If NATO did renounce that option, the Secretary said, the alliance would have to match the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact countries. To do that, the U.S. would have to "reintroduce the draft, triple the size of its armed forces and put its economy on a wartime footing." In scuttling the strategy of flexible response, the Secretary charged, the U.S. would be curbing its commitment to Europe...
Pitcher Ron Darling, man of 9-4 record and 2.14 ERA, was selected by the Texas Rangers in the free-agent entry draft last year after the college season ended and signed a professional contract. Traded into the New York Mets' organization this past spring, Darling is currently with the Triple-A Tidewater Tides and is expected to make the jump to the bigs before long...