Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diploma as a letter of recommendation, which each student must apply for and purchase personally. The same practice provails today. Unlike most other colleges, also, Harvard has never awarded diplomas to individual students at Commencement, but has requried graduates to make their own arrangements to pick up the document, or have it sent to them, after the exercises...
...from the U. S. Navy in 1927, was arrested by the Department of Justice, accused of betraying Navy secrets to Japan (TIME, July 27). The District of Columbia's Grand Jury shortly indicted this jittery alcoholic on the charge that he sold to the Japanese a confidential Naval document entitled The Service of Information and Security. Last week the Grand Jury indicted Farnsworth on the more serious charge of conspiracy. Named were two of Farnsworth's clients: Commander Yosiyuki Itimiya, assistant Naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy from October 1932 to December 1934, and Lieut. Commander Arika...
...great demonstration in which shirt-sleeved men paraded in feathered Indian headdress, girls blew kisses at the platform. With similar unanimity, the Convention adopted its political resolutions, couched in a churchly laudamus style : "We reaffirm our faith in American institutions, particularly our faith in the Constitution. . . . We praise that document. . . . We praise. . . . We further praise. . . Lastly we praise the Constitution in its entirety and inclusive of its amendments. . . . Finally, lest specification detract from the fullness of our sanction, we publish our unreserved and unqualified endorsements of all public acts, radio addresses and statements of our leader, pledging our resources...
...censor-ridden Germany seeped news last week of a 4,000-word letter sent to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler last month, in which ten responsible pastors of the German Evangelical Protestant Church daringly protested against the entire credo and technique of the National Socialist Party. This remarkable document, phrased with an air of winning deference, indicted: 1) Nazi concentration camps; 2) the Nazi espionage system within the country; 3 ) the extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school...
...better political document was the Democratic platform than its Republican counterpart of 1936, more literate, more persuasive. Brief, vigorous, and general, speaking in terms not of legislative plans but of glorious ideals was the platform Franklin Roosevelt had drafted. It recalled the Declaration of Independence by six times sonorously repeating "We hold this truth to be self-evident. . . ." It invoked the spirit of Roosevelt I by promising to end "the activities of malefactors of great wealth. . . ." Its ringing eloquence was reiterated in the chorus: "The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. We will keep...