Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unusual document had just been presented to slight, nervous New England Captain Joseph Gainard, Master of the Algic. To their demands astonished Captain Gainard made no reply. Then as suddenly as they had quit, the crew resumed work and the 5,500-ton, 17-year-old freighter cleared Baltimore, began its 103-day journey to South America. With the Algic sailed desertion, mutiny, death...
...document was dated August 6, 1935, and stipulated that the residuary income from the estate was to go to his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Randolph Mills, with the exception of bequests to Mrs. George R. Burgess, and George W. Sands both of whom were wards of Mr. Mills. In addition life annuities yielding from $1250 to $12500 were left his servants and personal employees...
Candidate LaGuardia thought the M. O. T.'s treatment of his life & times was "all right." Impartial observers thought it was a masterly if unconscious campaign document. Tammany did not go on record with any sentiments, but after the film had played a week to 150,000 people at the Music Hall, the management deemed it advisable to substitute a Mickey Mouse cartoon for the M. O. T. during the second week of the current feature's (Stage Door) run. Thus the potential number of voters who might be drawn into the Mayor's camp...
...anything were needed to put a fine edge on the legal profession's fury at Franklin Delano Roosevelt it was the Constitution Day address three weeks ago in which he again voiced his low opinion of "legalistic interpretation" of the Constitution, described it as a "layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." Principal pleasure of the five-day meeting was a series of political speeches and a set of political resolutions which set the legal profession and the New Deal on an equal footing of mutual disrespect...
...repeated affirmation ..." declared Portugal, ''of the principles advocated by the Secretary of State, the intellectual or sentimental adhesion of many to the said principles, their inclusion in many treaties between nations or in a document of greater scope aiming at defining the rules of life common to all States, will have, we believe, the effect of a certain moral pressure, but will produce rather limited practical action. We would be mistaken if we were to expect important results therefrom...