Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. As an opposition party the Republicans of Congress did not do themselves proud on the President's message. Said Senator McNary, Republican leader of the Senate, "A strong document that will provoke some controversy." Said Representative Snell, Republican leader of the House: "A very strong and outspoken speech which should command the attention of the country." Equally vapid were the comments of most other Republicans, of most Democrats. Senator Ashurst, one of those caught offside on the constitutional amendment question, vaguely described the message as "apples of gold in pictures of silver...
...novel "Jane Eyre" will always remain an interesting document, because of its intense individuality in an age when conventionality was the rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows...
...hours of the Dictator's speaking time he devoted 40 minutes to reacting in his Asiatic way to foreign criticism of the new Constitution. It is a document in which many of the original world revolutionary principles of Lenin & Trotsky are toned down to dovetail into Stalin's practical scheme of encouraging Communist parties to unite with Socialist and other parties throughout the world. Reds thus may foment revolutions and capture administrations from within against which, as pure Communists, they could only have struggled from without but inevitably they themselves will become somewhat watered down and followers...
...defense of Russia's new constitution, alleged to provide for the suffrage of 98.2 per cent of the population over 18 years of age, came to Harvard on Saturday less than an hour after the document had been adopted by the U.S.S.R., in the person of Constantin A. Oumansky, counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, speaking before Law School Students in Langdell Hall...
According to Counsellor Oumansky, the new document provides for universal suffrage, regardless of race, sex, color, creed or previous political affiliations, so that more than 98.2 per cent of all Russians over the age of 18 will now take an active part in the affairs of their government...