Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close to the deadline as possible. So, on New Year's day Joe Purtell, TIME'S senior editor for Business & Finance, sat down with the assembled facts and went to work. At 6 o'clock in the morning, two days later, he handed his first draft to the night typist, and went home...
...biggest news came from New Hampshire. A group of leading Republicans held a draft-Eisenhower rally in Manchester, posed for pictures giving a clenched-fist cheer for Ike, and pledged themselves to enter a full slate of Eisenhower candidates (against Dewey and Stassen) in the state's March 9 preferential primary. The pledge had the blessing of New Hampshire's peppery Senator Charles W. Tobey. Ike's blessing was not legally required. The eight New Hampshire delegates would cut little ice at the Republican convention, but a smashing victory in this primary, the nation's first...
...reasonable, and Congress passed a complicated formula to exempt 90 to 91%. When the formula was applied this year, the exemptions worked out to 100.7%. That would mean a windfall of upwards of $34 million. The companies agreed that this was more than they deserved and that Congress should draft a new formula for 1948. They were also willing to work out a retroactive adjustment...
...seem ferocious. He got a job copying in a lawyer's office. Electrified by reading Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, he studied Spanish, began writing a novel about Montezuma in a blank book one wintry night. He became a political reporter, for substantial fees helped lazy legislators draft their bills, became second sergeant in his home-town rifle company, and failed his bar examination. "Goodbye," said his father, when he marched away to the Mexican War, "come back...
Wail Amid the Woodwinds. The Austrian treaty draft was set aside. Marshall turned to Germany. Molotov repeated (for German consumption) his demand for a strong central German government. One weary U.S. delegate reported that he could not even go to the opera without hearing a voice wailing amid the woodwinds: "The Soviet Union demands a liberal, democratic, peace-loving central government for all Germany...