Word: drafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meeting in Chicago to hear the fact-findings of 35 subcommittees, 145 members of Dr. Glenn Frank's committee, whose job is to draft a Republican program for 1940, found their liveliest inspiration in a statue. Presented by the committee's secretary-pressagent, Journalist William Hard, to G. 0. P. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, it portrayed a streamlined elephant, charging and trumpeting, tusks up, ears back, tail flying, was inscribed, "Let's G. O. Places." In August 1927, Calvin Coolidge, summering in the Black Hills, renounced third-term aspirations by handing out a little slip...
...Aboard the Roosevelt third-term band wagon stepped Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy. Speaking at Traverse City, he said: "The nation comes first. . . . We may have to draft the President for four more years of leadership...
...Departments could keep an eye on it. Both bills were passed, and from joint committee conferences the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 emerged with most of the Administration-backed features retained. But one last safeguard against complete White House domination of the authority had been stamped on the final draft by Pat McCarran. No member of the authority except its administrator may be dismissed except for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office...
Beginning July 1, all "State members"-which includes Jews and other minorities-will be subjected to a draft compelling them to serve on any assigned job, commanded by the Reich Institute for Labor Placement & Unemployment Insurance. This drastic decree will be applied to all regardless of race, sex or occupation. While Nazi authorities gave only vague hints as to the true meaning of the labor draft law, they did deny that it was a war measure. To the disenfranchised, persecuted Jews the decree meant they would soon be working on Führer Hitler's projects. Perhaps the best...
Doing a smart 38 m.p.h. with wide open throttle the craft was just clearing the trees on the edge of the field, when a disagreeable down draft went to work. The ship poised for a moment, then pancaked into a large tree some 15 or 20 feet off the ground...