Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opium. The Council confirmed the authority of the Preparatory Committee, of which the U. S. is a member, to draft the guiding principles for the first of two international conferences on opium to be held next November, with the object of limiting opium consumption in the Far East, China, India, Japan, Portugal, Siam, Belgium, Italy. Opposition to limitation of production came from...
...Washington the Insular Affairs Committee of the House voted 11 to 5 to report granting independence to the islands. Some of those voting for presenting such a measure are opposed to granting independence at present, but voted favorably merely to bring the matter up. A subcommittee was delegated to draft the measure with two basic provisions: 1) that the U. S. was to have the right to a naval base on the islands, and 2) that there should be suitable guarantees for the payment of Philippine bonds most of which are held in this country. Democratic and radical sentiment...
...Committee of Experts (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.), whose chairman is the renowned General Dawes, whose function is to report upon the means of stabilizing the German currency and of balancing the German budget, began to draft its final report...
...Nelson?Draft of a will made in December...
...conference did endorse a plan for a $10,000,000 corporation to be financed by private capital to aid in refunding farm debts. A committee of two Minneapolites, three Chicagoans and two New Yorkers was appointed to draft the charter of the corporation, which would make loans to sound banks in the agricultural area that are threatened by the emergency. Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Wallace are to cooperate in the selection of committees to dispose of the capital stock...