Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most difficult problem in producing the Democratic Platform of 1936 was to make that document appear to be the legitimate offspring of the Democratic National Convention. When Franklin Roosevelt's chosen platform-maker, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, arrived last week in Philadelphia, he solemnly assured inquirers that he did not bring with him a platform ready-made at the White House. Some days earlier Democratic Senators had been shown the draft of the platform, but Senator Wagner had either left it behind in Washington or tactfully destroyed it. All that he brought to Philadelphia, hidden under...
...revolt against such a decision, would have us scrap the Constitution or the Court, or both. This extreme solution would doubtlessly create more new problems than it would solve old ones. Still, the wheels of the Constitution are creaking badly. Until "due process" is pried out of the document into which it once crept when no one was watching, both Congress and the legislatures will continue to be irresponsible debating societies, while the nine justices of the Supreme Court carefully carry the key to their padded cell...
...that idea nothing came, partly because neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives is equipped for sound cinema, partly because of Republican opposition. Nevertheless the film the President saw went to Congress as an official Federal document, is the first motion picture ever placed in Congressional archives. By last week this film, called The Plow That Broke the Plains, was making exciting news in & out of the cinema industry...
...notable group of U. S. industrialists, journalists, chemists and farm experts gathered in Dearborn, Mich, just a year ago to sign a "Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self-Maintenance." This curious document was presented for signature by Francis Patrick Garvan, flag-waving head of the Chemical Foundation, was duly signed in Henry...
...World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume I of Sarah Gertrude Millin's General Smuts is no campaign document blocked out with a whitewash brush but a sympathetic biography of a Big Boer...