Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House's quick approval of a $653 million appropriation bill which included $50 million for Korea, and the swift agreement of a joint House-Senate conference to extend the draft bill for a year-with the President empowered to decree when & if inductions should begin...
...Security Council forthwith settled down to prolonged parliamentary discussion. After four hours, the U.S. draft resolution was passed by a vote of 9-to-0, with Yugoslavia abstaining. The resolution significantly called on all member nations to "render every assistance" to U.N. in carrying out the cease-fire order...
...legislation into a drawer and pushed it out of sight. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry looked at Majority Floor Leader Scott Lucas' list of 22 "must" bills, and agreed to cooperate if it was whittled down to six: expansion of social security, extension of the draft and MAP, the omnibus $29 billion appropriation bill, a bill cutting excise taxes, and a final attempt to pass FEPC. Said Ohio's Robert A. Taft with a grin: "Our part of the deal would be to keep the boys from talking." Adjournment target: August...
...wipe out all the empowering clauses of all existing motor vehicle statutes. By a sloppy bit of writing, it also wiped out all powers of cities and towns. Pastore said he would summon a special session before November (when the new law is scheduled to go into effect) to draft a new bill. Presumably this one would be read carefully first...
Attlee had seen an early draft of the pamphlet, made some marginal notes on it, then forgot all about...