Word: drafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Philip Nicholas, drafter of the much debated Sales Tax now before the Massachusetts House, came strong opposition to Representative Foley's proposed service charge on University property in the Phillips Brooks House last night...
...actually drafts the Congress' masterpieces of unintelligible taxation is the legislative counsel to the House of Representatives, Middleton Beaman. A shy, caustic genius, he has spent two decades trying to keep one jump ahead of the collective brains of the nation's ablest tax lawyers. Between Drafter Beaman and the lay members of the inner circle stands another wizard. Tax Expert Lovell H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Wizard Parker has the all important job of calculating how much revenue a tax will yield, whom it will affect and how. Great...
Many a suit at law has hinged on the interpretation of an "and/or." Usually the decision has gone against the drafter who slipped that literary whatnot into his contract. An early instance is a case decided in a British court on Feb. 8, 1855. A shipper named Gumming had accepted from a ship owner named Cuthbert a contract to provide one complete cargo of "sugar, molasses and/or other lawful products...
...hired champion who defends his client right or wrong-such is the usual concept of a lawyer. Far different was the concept set up in Rome last week by Signor Alfredo Rocco, reverberant-voiced Minister of Justice, drafter of the new Italian Penal Code (TIME...