Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developed that the firm undertook to do research in any academic field desired, that a customer had only to wire to the company the nature of the problem confronting him and he would receive by registered mail a few days later a paper of any desired length, in rough draft or "ready to submit" as ordered...
...pestilence as did exposed, decaying bodies in the Middle Ages-that the Mayor directed his labor adviser, Nathan Frankel, to notify the cemetery management and the strikers that unless they promptly settled the dispute, he would act. Then he instructed Health Commissioner John L. Rice to be prepared to draft laborers from the Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity as gravediggers...
...troops gained a solid footing, preparatory to Japanese efforts to nip off Shanghai from the rest of China by closing pincers from the North and South, now that Japan's frontal attack has failed to take Shanghai for 13 weeks. This week 39 Japanese destroyers and shallow draft gunboats were bombarding the Shanghai peninsula's southern coast and the Japanese landing force, variously estimated between 5,000 and 25,000 had advanced to within 15 mi. of Shanghai...
Died. Henry Mauris Robinson. 69, financier, friend and adviser to Presidents Wilson. Harding. Coolidge, Hoover; who attended the Paris Peace Conference, the First International Labor Conference, helped draft the Dawes Plan; after a fall; in Pasadena, Calif...
Last week John Flynn said the new regime's first step would be to draft a plan to reorganize and centralize the administration, perhaps consolidate some schools and develop a "great institute of technology." Chairman Eisner revealed some members wanted to appoint a chancellor as chief for all the colleges...