Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the third conviction for the ex-Secretary of the Communist Party in recent years and his ninth arrest since he entered the revolutionary movement a dozen years ago. During the war he was found guilty of obstructing the draft and sent to an Ohio workhouse. After the war, he was convicted of writing the notorious "left wing" manifesto which split the regular Socialist Party and led to the birth of insurrectionary Communism in America. He was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing prison and served 18 months before the Appellate Court reversed the decision and released...
...regulations give rise to some delicate international questions. Government officials, anxious to avoid complications, may be expected to draft the new regulations " with discretion." Theoretically a ship carrying liquor, bound for example, from the Bermudas to Canada, would, if its course should chance to come within the three mile limit of the United States, be subject to seizure for illegal importation and transportation of liquor. It is understood, however, that no seizures of foreign vessels will be made; that at most the liquor will be confiscated and certain other penalties imposed. Besides, foreign ships will be allowed to bring into...
...days when an optimistic census had declared that there were only some 8% of illiterates in the whole vast area. English commissions were satisfied that this country had a very dangerous competitor in scholarship, in science, in general liberal education across the Atlantic." Then came the draft report that 25% of the drafted men were illiterate. And the British breathed more freely...
...Another reason why I object to the proposed scheme is that the St. Lawrence route, even when improved, would not be feasible for ocean-going ships. The channels proposed by the Joint Commission are not of a depth to accommodate vessels of a draft which can be navigated economically. Specially strengthened ships must be constructed to navigate the St. Lawrence in safety. The damages from Icebergs, tides, and fogs are so great and losses so frequent that the Maritime Insurance rate is heavy enough to be a serious handicap. Moreover the delays in the restricted channels of the river would...
...underlying film of distrust was swept aside in the wake of the great ovation accorded Secretary Hughes when the latter proposed concrete measures for the immediate scrapping of naval forces, how the assembled plenipotentiaries were engaged for three months in searching consideration of the Treaty, and how the final draft agreed in every essential with the original Hughes document...