Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publisher Bertie McCormick of the Chicago Tribune ("I'm a Taft man myself") got back to the U.S. after a five-week Pacific junket and unburdened himself of a wealth of political opinions: 1) though General Douglas MacArthur is not a presidential candidate, he would not refuse a draft; 2) "There will be no damned foreigners in the Illinois G.O.P. primary. If Dewey or Stassen try to crash . . . we'll have to do something about it"; 3) "I think very highly of Warren, but a man cannot go into a national convention with only one state...
...need a Man-Draft Eisenhower...
Indian Delegate C. H. Bhabha wanted a further amendment in the draft charter of the I.T.O.-International Trade Organization-which the Havana conference hopes to complete. That charter already permits (while deploring in principle) the use of preferential tariffs. It even allows a nation to lay down flat quotas on the amount of goods that may enter that country, provided I.T.O. approves. India's Bhabha said that this was not good enough. India wanted the power to set its own quotas, with or without I.T.O. permission...
...Manhattan, General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a homey tribute. Veteran Broadway Producer Brock Pemberton, who went to work for the National Draft Eisenhower League, explained: "He works on me like Lincoln...
...digging for facts, explaining Europe's needs to visiting Congressmen, always staying tactfully in the background at a time when the U.S. was officially not intervening. When the conferees had finished, he came back to the U.S. with Will Clayton to help screen Europe's requests and draft legislation for interim and long-range aid. He wrote some of the technical and financial clauses himself, flew to Washington again this month to help sell the final product to Congress...