Word: redraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed? asked the President's vastly heartened Opposition. Senator Burke promptly proclaimed that he would redraft his amendment to include Dean Smith's staggered retirement system and uniform State conventions. Texas' Tom Connally, another Presidential Plan antagonist, planned one without the stagger. Most significant converts were two Judiciary Committeemen, Kentucky's Logan and New Mexico's Hatch, who had been leaning reluctantly toward the President's Plan. Senator Hatch, who postponed private engagements in order to hear Dean Smith out, announced after the hearing that he was ready to go whole...
...also declared, surprisingly, that he "could not" veto a ten month extension as proposed by Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter to its grave. The resolution would extend NRA to April 1, 1936, grant a 30-day period after the present June 16 expiration date for revision of existing codes to its specifications. The death-dealing...
...conference situation is desperate. It holds the lives of the young men of the world in its hands and public opinion despairs of its deliberations. Yesterday I offered M. Barthou a place on the committee to redraft the disarmament plan. M. Barthou declined. Today I attempted a draft resolution myself. M. Barthou rejects it. Either M. Barthou must submit a program of work or the general commission will be summoned and will be informed that the bureau has failed. This means that the conference closes down...
...announced that Dr. Howard Lee McBain, dean of the faculty of Political Science at Columbia University (whence have come so many Roosevelt experts), had been invited to Cuba to redraft Cuba's election laws, because "the 1934 Presidential election must be entirely beyond suspicion...
Second kick was announcement of an election next June of a Constituent Assembly to redraft the old constitution. Proud of the old constitution was the Administrative Council's idealistic member, onetime President Baltazar Brum, good friend of Woodrow Wilson for whom he named a Montevideo avenue. The Council put in a dignified, parliamentary protest. Meeting in an all-night session, Congress instructed President Terra to undo all he had done...