Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the House was voting on the draft act, one Congressman shouted an unnerving question at his colleagues: "Have you heard from Reuben? What does Reuben think...
...Passed an inadequate draft bill which extended the draft for nine months after May 15, but 1) suspended inductions between May 15 and Oct. 15, 2) exempted all males under 20 and all fathers, 3) limited service to 18 months...
...witted, twinkle-eyed author of this definition, himself a master-economist. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, died of heart disease on Easter Day at his manor of Tilton, Sussex. He had just returned from setting up the World Bank and Fund which he had helped to draft in 1944 at Bretton Woods...
...M.R.P., still at week's end the third pillar of the Gouin Government, seemed determined to campaign against it, though such action might force it to withdraw from the administration. If the people reject the proposed Constitution, they will vote, on June 2, for a new Assembly to draft another version. If they accept it, the June election will choose the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic...
...Jackson grew out of six Lowell lectures, given at Harvard when Arthur was 24. Schlesinger pounded out his first draft at 4,000-5,000 words a day, finished the book despite twins "tearing all over the place" or even "sitting on my lap." His wife, daughter of Harvard's late Physiologist Walter B. Cannon, wrote a children's book called Twins at Our House at the same time. They counted on its advance order of 6,000 copies to support his unprofitable studies-not dreaming that Jackson would sell 30,000 copies...