Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representatives of nine University organizations agreed Saturday on a tentative draft of a letter to President Conant objecting to the administration of the Navy's loyalty oath to NROTC students at Harvard...
...beams of the Fair Deal platform for 1950. In the White House, departing Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford polished up the State of the Union message. Across the street, in the rococo old building that once housed the State Department, Economic Adviser Leon Keyserling scribbled on stacks of yellow foolscap, drafting the President's economic report. Down another hall, Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. roughed out paragraphs and charts for a draft of next year's budget...
Bidault's Finance Minister Maurice Petsche had prepared a budget of 2 trillion 275 billion francs ($6,500,000,000), had balanced it, at least on paper, by calling for 200 billion francs in new taxes. The Radical Socialists (conservatives) drafted what they considered a more realistic budget which would cut out all new taxes, slash government expenditures and leave a deficit of 23 billion francs. The Socialists objected to that: they insisted on the new taxes, threatened strikes if as a result of cuts in government expenses any civil servants were fired. Bidault finally put his own budget...
...weak heart finally forced Bridges to settle down in Buenos Aires. There, before his death in 1949, he wrote his book. It contains many of the faults its author saw in his first draft, which "like the country of its origin, was criss-crossed by precipitous gullies interspersed with tangled thickets and bogs." But readers who follow daredevil Author Bridges' trail will hardly care to complain about a few irregularities in the terrain...