Word: drafting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early last week, the Big Four had lightly skipped over several draft treaties, noting areas of agreement, shelving points of disagreement. Mr. Byrnes made a handsome announcement: U.S. occupation authorities in Germany and Austria would return the U.S.-impounded Danubian shipping that Yugoslavia and other Danube countries had long and loudly been clamoring for.* And then, as Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin tackled Mr. Molotov (with French Deputy Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville modestly mediating) on the Italian treaty, Mr. Molotov began to make handsome concessions...
...editorial notes "the absolute weight of the majority" vote, condemning the past inadequacy of the Council's contact with the student body. Unfortunately the Crimson has not yet published the contents of the draft provisions already drawn up by the Constitutional Committee. Those provisions deal with publicity, audits, office hours, availability of Council members, open hearings or meetings, reports and financial statements. Although this material has been presented and outlined to the Crimson on two occasions, it has been neglected...
What can the President do about it? It has been suggested that Lewis be tossed into jail. The men stay out. No coal is mined. Then, of course, the government can throw the men into jail. No coal. Or if he wishes, Mr. Truman can draft all the miners. But if they still refuse to go into the mines, shooting them will get him no coal, and the nation must go without heat, steel, railroad traffic, and the other necessities of industrial life. If he tries to send the Army in to do the work, labor violence and mining accidents...
Vacancies have been reported at the rate of five or six a week, Watson said, with most of the openings occurring in the Yard. He attributed a "substantial" number of men dropping from College to the draft, which is hitting the younger men harder...
...London Assembly it was the Soviet Union which prevented the establishment of the Trusteeship Council in provisional form. During the nine months between the London Assembly and this Assembly, it did nothing in relation to the draft trusteeship agreements submitted to it, whereas the United States worked actively and with much success upon this matter...