Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed the $6 billion appropriation for the foreign-aid program; the one-year extension of the reciprocal trade bill, with regret that it was not for the usual three-year period; the draft bill; appropriation bills carrying almost $10½ billion to bolster the Army, Navy and Air Force; the $573 million waterways and flood-control bill (TIME...
Most televiewers kept staring at their sets until the gavel had fallen for the last time. For all its blurs and fluffs, TV had told a fascinating story. Under the forced draft of its first big assignment, it had proved to be an unpolished but very promising reporter...
...weeks, Leo Allen's Rules Committee had kept the draft bill from the House floor, in the obvious hope that it would be lost or badly mauled in the closing rush. Last week, with the bill on the floor at last, the House did its best to oblige. An ill-assorted alliance of the far left and far right leaped in with knives flourishing. New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio and left-wing Leo Isacson joined forces with Mississippi's ranting John E. Rankin and Michigan's Paul Shafer...
They smothered the bill with amendments which would make the draft a ghastly joke. The House eagerly adopted most of them. Cried Missouri's Dewey Short: "You have perhaps not beheaded this monster but you have dehorned it . . . Why don't you be honest and defeat...
...filibuster by Henry Wallace's running-mate, Idaho's Glen Taylor. While the floor emptied and the galleries filled, Taylor talked for eight hours and 33 minutes. At 1:10 a.m. Saturday, he was spelled by North Dakota's lone ranger, Bill Langer. Opponents of the draft sat back and chuckled. Two of the most unpopular men in the Senate were doing their work for them...