Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bodies, Zionist groups and two lodges had plumped for the referendum. Non-Jews, many of whom were unaware they were taking sides on a partisan Jewish issue, let their names be used. 137 of them ministers, bishops and educators who signed what the Christian Century called "a mischief-making document" circulated among Gentiles by Rabbi Wise...
...lessons from any quarter on the subject of national freedom, self-determination and its best interests." Wrote Mussolini's spokesman, Virginio Gayda, in Giornale d'Italia: "We should like to believe his words were never uttered, but if they are authentic they constitute a new and exceptional document of provocation by the United States against Italy...
...were beneficiaries of public aid of one kind or another. These facts, included last week in a preliminary report by the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief, headed by South Carolina's pro-Rooseveltian Senator James Francis Byrnes, would have been enough to make that document arresting. It contained considerably more. Eight weeks ago Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause of the country's current economic ills was the Administration's policies-urged modification of the levies on 1) undistributed profits and 2) capital gains. Most sensational item...
...cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...
Upon the desk of many a gloomy university budgetmaker John Price Jones Corp., fund raisers, last week placed a surprising document. It was a study of gifts and bequests to a sample group of 49 U. S. universities, which in 17 years have received all told $770,913,560. The surprise lay in the fact that these universities as a group had received almost as much from philanthropists after Depression as before it. Their receipts each year from 1920 to 1929 averaged $45,573,000, each year since...