Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owens concerning a lady to whom he had proposed and by whom he had been rejected, nor could he have written any letter like that which Lincoln wrote to General Grant in 1865 asking that his son, aged 22, who had been kept at Harvard College, despite the draft, should be put on his staff and "not in the ranks." Tyler had two grandsons, privates in the Confederate Army, one of whom was killed and the other wounded, and two sons by his second marriage who surrendered at Appomattox aged...
...alliances-was cleverly emphasized last week, in Dr. Stresemann's note: "The German Government is convinced that . . . the obligations arising from the Covenant of the League of Nations and the [Locarno] Rhine Pact . . . contain nothing which could in any way conflict with the obligations provided for in the draft treaty of the United States...
...elements of a first class Franco-British tiff were thus brewing, the foreign offices of these two "old friend" countries hastily devised a formula which would save faces all round. They proposed, unofficially, to the U. S. State Department that an international conference of jurists be called to draft the final Peace Pact text. To this proposal Secretary Kellogg returned an unofficial but emphatic "No!" Thus he shrewdly sought to force the Allied Powers to declare before public opinion whether or not they are ready to "renounce...
...said Senator Fess, who is to keynote at the Republican convention, President Coolidge would accept the nomination if, to escape deadlock, the convention should draft...
...French Republic has no intention of subscribing to the simple multilateral treaty "renouncing war" which was submitted to the Powers, last fortnight, by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg (TIME, April 23). The French warning went to the Powers, in the form of an alternative treaty draft, proposed to take the place of the Kellogg Treaty. Inspection showed that Foreign Minister Briand of France had felt obliged to so qualify the expression "renouncing war" as to emasculate it of all meaning. The Briand Treaty is in six elaborately weasled articles, whereas the Kellogg Treaty contains but three which...