Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from parading young Peronistas overshadowed complaints from workers excluded from the benefits, disappointment that the package delivered was not the one Perón planned (the Cabinet refused to approve an outright 25% share in net profits, basis of Perón's original draft), and the frank, understandable anger of management. Some employers would certainly refuse to pay, if only to test the constitutionality of the decree, but time had run out. A Supreme Court decision against the measure would merely tighten Perón's claims that all but he were foes of labor...
...soon as Ferguson quit, the burden was taken up by Wisconsin's huge, garrulous Congressman Frank B. Keefe, bent on proving that somebody was highly unprepared for war in 1941. (Congressman Keefe had prepared for it by voting against Lend-Lease, against arming merchant ships, against extending the draft that August...
...wills there's still a chance they'll draft me to be President...
...expected sensation which Pat Hurley pulled out of his pocket was merely a copy of the Declaration of Teheran (which he said he had authored in the original draft...
Last week the Rhodes trustees issued first call for new applicants-to be chosen in December 1946. This time, besides the 32 regular scholarships, there will be 32 more for those who have seen war service (in the armed forces, war plants, or any jobs for which draft boards have granted deferments). Added scholars, unlike regular ones, may be married, over 25 and sophomores instead of juniors. The $2,000 a year which scholars get will probably be raised, to offset higher living costs...