Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Running under forced draft the Chateau Thierry reached San Francisco, from New York by way of the Panama Canal, in 13 days, 22 hours, a record run. At San Francisco, the shipboard epidemic was under control. Only 75 men still suffered. Ambulances took bed-ridden cases from the dock to the hospitals. Undertakers called for four...
...years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known as the Liquor Prohibition Amendment). Aristocrat, rebel, descendant of sturdy Roundheads and men of law, Gouverneur Morris led the fight for the Declaration of Independence in his native state New York, helped draft the U. S. Constitution. His contribution to the Constitution is disputed. However, in 1804, Morris wrote to Timothy Pickering: "That instrument was written by the fingers which write this letter." James Madison wrote: "The finish given to the style and arrangement of the Constitution fairly belongs...
...bill, subjecting all France, male and female, to the draft, passed...
...Draft McReynolds and he will lead to victory the historic Democratic Party, that ancient guardian of the people's faith in free government...
...bills. To leap over this law, investment bankers have adopted this subterfuge. They deposit foreign stock with a trust company, which in turn issues trustee certificates against the escrowed stock. Such stock is U. S. stock, and is passable on the Exchange. So the Governors last week had a draft made for proposal to the New York Legislature-that "bearer" stocks, as well as "registered" stocks be made legal for Exchange trading...