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...labor plank, I appointed him to draw up the plank. We adopted his plank, except that I was the one who wrote, and insisted on adding, a guarantee of collective bargaining. I appointed Governor Hickenlooper [Iowa] to write a more extensive veterans plank, and our committee adopted his draft...
Burt Wheeler wanted to keep pre-Pearl Harbor fathers out of the draft, at least until next year. To the nearly empty floor he cried...
...School, which does not depend on draft-age students, was booming despite the war, hoped to exceed its 1936 record of 4,034 registrants. The school had come a long way from its small, but distinguished, beginnings. Among the founders in 1919 was no less a quartet than James Harvey Robinson, Thorstein Veblen, Charles Austin Beard and John Dewey. To get the academic dust out of their lungs they set up their own school in a musty Victorian house in New York's Chelsea district. In 1922 Johnson took over the institution...
...sized freighter whose bow gapes open like jaws to discharge cargo. Developed late in 1941, the vessel was a peculiarly tough problem in design, since it had to be capable of carrying and loading hundreds of tons of tanks, seaworthy enough to cross oceans under its own power, shallow-draft enough to put the tanks directly ashore. It carries a full operational crew and is usually commanded by a senior grade lieutenant, Navy or Coast Guard...
...Army had taken him to India, and it was there, Llewellyn claims, that he wrote the first draft of How Green Was My Valley. The final draft was writ ten on London park benches while he was jobless. In between he had been a boxer (his nose is slightly out of joint), a film extra, a reporter for a penny film paper, an assistant movie director and scenarist...