Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government Career: At the Call of President Roosevelt, he helped draft the Social Security Act in 1934, has served the U.S. ever since as an economic and welfare adviser. He knows more about the U.S. social-security system than anyone else. Named Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1953, he was the key man in the first total revision of U.S. tax laws in 79 years (TIME...
...legally) in 1931. Shawn next flouted the opposition of backers and booking agents to rescue male dancers from general scorn as sissies and mere props for female dancers. From 1933 to 1940 he successfully toured the country with his troupe of male dancers. But with World War II the draft made short work of this project. Shawn himself danced and directed shows at Keesler Field, Miss. Since the war he has devoted himself to building up Jacob's Pillow as a combination summer festival of dancing and a "University of the Dance." Current enrollment: 60 boys and girls...
...black jeans and green sport shirt, Singer Harry Belafonte riveted his audience in Las Vegas, where he opened last week, with Mark Twain - based on the cry of the man with the lead-line on a towboat. This song, and many another in Belafonte's repertory, represents a draft on a treasury in Washington, D.C. that to many a scholar and singer is more important than Fort Knox...
...armed services commissioned 19,824 physicians and 9,704 dentists under their special draft act from Oct. 1, 1950 to Feb. 1, 1955. But 28 physicians and 13 dentists were inducted as privates because they refused to apply for commissions, as were 20 physicians and eleven dentists ruled ineligible; e.g., because they refused to take a loyalty oath...
...that he is no softie. Behind the manners of a Southern gentleman lurks a mind like a shark's mouth. Hopkins is not only a genius for work but for good works. It is Tom's big chore throughout much of the novel to write a first draft of a Hopkins speech kicking off a national campaign on mental health. Before the speech is finally given, Tom has to take a bumpy ride over his own well-scarred mental highway. It is stalked by the ghosts of 1) the men he killed as a wartime paratrooper...