Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian draft of a proposed treaty, circulated with Moscow's notes Saturday, provided that the treaty be signed by both East and West Germany. Unification-- if it ever came--would be by negotiation between the two Germanys, rather than through negotiations by outside powers, and would be in the form of a confederation...
...sharp 20° at the rambling Eisenhower farm outside Gettysburg at 8:49 one morning last week as a helicopter from Washington touched down on the lawn. The passengers were Presidential Assistant Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons and Presidential Speechwriter Malcolm Moos. Their briefcase cargo: an all-but-final draft of the 1959 State of the Union message incorporating changes that the President had ordered two days before. The President greeted them just inside the door, led them to his long, heated sun porch, where he had been working on a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. They spread out the papers...
Less than 30 minutes after his arrival at Gettysburg, Ike was settled in a comfortable chair on his heated, glass-enclosed porch facing out upon the battlefield. Then he went to work on the papers that lay before him-the draft of the State of the Union message to be delivered next week, and a preliminary draft of the presidential budget message to be delivered shortly thereafter...
...case by going to an open window and yelling, "Is anybody out there guilty?" To Teamster officials around the country-Hoffa's own men-Bender sent a form letter asking for information about racketeering, if any. Back came brief, negative replies. That was that. Without even bothering to draft a written report, Bender informed Hoffa that everything seemed to be O.K. Hoffa announced Bender's finding to the press...
Infantry. In Bonn, West Germany, when Ulrich Draeger received notice from the draft board to report for examination, his father put him in a perambulator and wheeled him to the draft board office, where four-month-old Ulrich got a lollipop and was sent home...