Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed a nine-man commission to draft a U.S. peacetime universal training plan. The chairman, chosen by the commission members: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Karl T. Compton...
...together with U.S. Ambassador John Leighton Stuart, had been carrying out, have come to a virtual standstill. If any new presidential statement were issued, it should have reconsidered China policy in the light of current events. As matters now stand, a new and realistic statement will be difficult to draft for some time to come...
Said foreign-policy expert Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not a candidate . . . and I am anticipating no campaign in my behalf." That left the door carefully ajar. To a reporter's question about a draft call, he quipped: "You mean I don't have any of Sherman's blood...
Last week at The Hague, Johannes A. Jonkman, Minister of Overseas Territories, struggled with the job of putting Citizen de Jong's fears into political terms. Jonkman, who lost all his hair in a Jap prison camp in the Indies, worked so hard to draft his speech to The Netherlands States-General that friends feared his health would break down. After he made the speech, interpreting the proposed pact between the Dutch Government and Soekarno's rebel Indonesian government, Holland's politicians and people were still as unhappy and undecided about the issue as Pieter de Jong...
Having waited 35 years for democracy, China this week was moving fast. Delegates to the National Assembly meeting at Nanking prepared to vote on some of the 300 changes proposed in the 1936 constitution draft, hoped to adjourn by Christmas with the task completed...