Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name, he took issue with Stevenson's recent essays into military strategy. The U.S. cannot "prove wise and strong with public speech that erroneously asserts our economic weakness [or] by any such simple device as suspending, unilaterally, our H-bomb tests [or] by hinting that the military draft might soon be suspended...
...bakers were unimpressed by any such general considerations, and last week, all over France, they banged down their shutters and went on strike. The government retaliated vigorously. In some provincial towns the strike caved in under government threats to draft bakers into the army. In Paris gendarmes "requisitioned" nearly one-third of the city's 4,200 bakeries, ordering the owners to fire up their ovens or face a year in jail and a $3,500 fine...
...Enrico de Nicola, a Senator for life, was the principal guarantor of the new court's integrity. Also, his resignation was bound to give rise to the cry that the Segni government was fostering "fascism." In dismay, Premier Segni hastily called his cabinet into session to throw together draft legislation revamping the public security code. Simultaneously, government emissaries, including Premier Segni himself, hurried down to Naples to try and persuade De Nicola to withdraw his resignation...
...Draft. "For a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. to suggest one day that we are 'losing the cold war' and the next day that we might get rid of the draft . . . is the height of political fakery and irresponsibility...
Died. Archbishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, 75, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., who as a young rector in Oregon was named chairman of the state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy...