Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assembly called for a "peaceful, democratic and just solution" for the "situation" in Algeria, and without condemning anyone, gave the French and the Algerian nationalists time to work things out. Last week, on the eve of another Assembly meeting, the French brought forth a draft version of their long-promised "framework law" to settle Algeria's future. Totally unacceptable, the Arabs called it, and in fact the law was something of a mouse-small, grey, and of indeterminate shape. But so deep run the divisions within Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury's government that the ministers themselves could...
...avoid detection), assigns one of his boys to tail any detective found to be tailing Tony Ducks. One employer, said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into his shop once every couple of weeks and glare at the employees. In 1941, after he had dodged the draft by claiming that he was the sole support of his family, Tony Ducks was convicted on a narcotics...
Concerning "Small Minds, Big Job" [July 22]: Don't blame the draft for Army "eight balls." The draft is the only source of intelligence the Army has. Most Army regulars will quickly admit that they stay in 'the Army because they couldn't make a living on the outside. The Air Force took the only administrative talent in the military and got out while the going was good. The army is just an eight-ball outfit...
Football's College All-Stars bounced into Chicago's Soldier Field last week with a herd of the swiftest, smartest players in years. Almost all were high on the professional league's draft lists. All were razor-keen after three hard weeks training under old Pro Coach Curley Lambeau. Their high hope: to pass the champion New York Giants silly and wow their new pro employers. Then it began to rain, rain, rain down through the stadium lights, and 75,000 spectators saw the rookies' annual blooding work toward a familiar ending...
...Yulo says the law was really written by Major Eisenhower, that he took Ike's draft paragraphs, cut them out and pasted them into the proper order to constitute the proposed law (a defense measure), and sent it off to President Manuel Quezon, who rammed it through Congress without a change. Yulo, who used to play golf with Ike at Canlubang Country Club, quotes Major Eisenhower as exclaiming in wonder: "This is legislation by shears...