Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed draft of Articles One and Two of the new constitution cover the methods of nomination and election in the Houses extensively, but omit the section dealing with the composition of the Council, since, Weld said, this question will eventually be decided by the student body...
...preferential ballot will be used in the House elections, according to the draft, with each voter expressing a first, second, and third choice...
...United States of Indonesia, conceived as an equal partner with The Netherlands under the House of Orange, was born in Batavia last week. Dutch and Indonesian representatives initialed a draft agreement providing for a three-way division of The Netherlands East Indies: first, the Indonesian Republic, comprising the islands of Java, Sumatra and Madura; second, Borneo; third, "The Great East," made up of Bali, the Celebes, the Moluccas, Dutch New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands. These three autonomous areas would be linked as equal partners in the United States of Indonesia, and within two years the U.S.I. would...
Tracked Down. The Army uncovered more than 2,400,000 psychoneurotics (1,875,000 rejected in the draft, 600,000 discharged after induction). Four-fifths of those discharged had cracked up under training-camp discipline before they saw any fighting. General Cooke found many a plain & fancy coward: at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards, where 2,800 reluctant soldiers facing shipment to battlefronts were imprisoned in a stockade, he discovered that, to avoid going, men threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them...
When the delegates met again, they would seek the foundation in the constitutional draft originally prepared for the 1937 Assembly, which was shelved by the Japanese invasion. Retaining the present five divisions of government (executive, legislative, judicial, control and examination), the constitution would supplant one-party appointees with elected officials, eventually bring China universal suffrage...