Word: archivist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodor Eschenburg as "serious and scientific," point out that the case against Hitler, Göring & Co. rests on hearsay as suspect as the Nazi accusation against the Communists. Spiegel had used, among other evidence, the institute's files in Munich. Historian Anton Hoch, the institute's archivist, accepting the scientific basis of Spiegel's findings, commented: "We must report atrocities such as Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps, but for the sake of truth we must also show that Nazis were not to blame for the Reichstag fire. The purposes to which they turned it were grim...
...letter. Perhaps you will realize how serious your "joke" has been. And students who have been misled into thinking they could pick up copies of the parody at the CRIMSON should at least be told they have, at your instigation, been put to a considerable inconvenience. W. Hinkham-Browne, Archivist...
...like taking part in a piece of history,'' said William Urry, archivist to the Dean and Chapter Library at Canterbury, presenting one of the least convincing arguments on taxation since the days when square-riggers carried marked-up tea to Boston. Noting that the Canterbury city council makes an annual grant to the almshouses in the nearby village of Harbledown, Archivist Urry wondered why. The city treasurer hadn't the foggiest. So Urry peered down through history, found the grant's origin nearly 800 years deep. In 1170, his dreams darkened by the blood of Archbishop...
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Mercati, 90, Vatican librarian and archivist of the Roman Catholic Church, disciplined scholar ("I'm always ready to learn") who wrote some 400 arcane works, was created a cardinal by his friend, the late Pope Pius XI; of a heart attack; in Vatican City. Surviving in the 70-member College of Cardinals...
Last week, as the case went on. U.S. Archivist Wayne C. Grover spoke up to reassure the alarmists. "No one at the National Archives," he said, "has any inclination or intention whatsoever of attempting to gain physical possession of those historical documents currently in the possession of such responsible institutions as the great university libraries and the widely respected historical associations." Yet Grover was in fact warning those collectors and dealers to whom federal documents are merely items for private profit. If the archives has its way, it will no longer permit such papers as those of Lewis and Clark...