Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took time off to go back to Washington for Chief Justice Stone's funeral, was soon back on the yacht, anchored off the Quantico Marine Base. Some visitors came aboard on official business: General Dwight Eisenhower (the draft); Reconversion Boss John Snyder (coal strike...
...treaty, they face such moot points as Trieste, Tripolitania and the Dodecanese. This week they put the "whole German problem" on their agenda -and no final European settlement was conceivable until Germany's neighbors knew what would happen to her. Molotov wanted to put off consideration of the draft U.S. treaty for Austria, where Jimmy Byrnes wants to get Allied troops (about 75% of them Russian) out of the country. The Balkans were sure to provide fireworks. With such obstacles ahead, optimism had to be well qualified. Asked how the conference was going, one U.S. official cracked: "Nobody...
Cause of the embarrassment: his indictment last Jan. 30 by the U.S. Government on draft-evasion charges. Allegedly, the Russian-born adventurer in international high finance who had dazzled Wall Street by his lightning-fast climb to control of 17 companies* in four years had filed false affidavits stating that his induction would leave his dependents without financial support. In severing his four-year connection with Panhandle, Rubinstein did not go away emptyhanded. He sold 296,525 shares of Panhandle stock for a profit...
...stockholders. But it caused U.S. immigration authorities to pounce: they found that Serge had adopted the new name for use, as he explained, "on formal occasions," that he had changed his Russian citizenship for Portuguese. A passport-fraud charge could not be made to stick. But his draft board hopes to be more successful...
...Author. Novelist Ward was born in Fairmount, Ind., has been married 18 years. The Snake Pit is her fourth novel. She has finished the first draft of a fifth novel and the outline of a sixth. Says her husband: "Mary Jane isn't happy unless she has a novel under...