Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Branding the oath of allegiance document as an humiliation to every intelligent teacher, and as "demagoguery in the guise of patrioteering," a letter was circulated yesterday among the Harvard faculty at the same time as the oath blanks, which were mailed so that the members may make the pledge individually...
Beautifully, informally written, Bliss Perry's biography is altogether alive from start to finish. It is perhaps the most compelling document of self-revelation penned by an American gentleman of letters. Its appeal to university men of the present and past is particularly great, and to the whole world it opens broad new vistas of life...
...Constitution of the U. S. is a powerful enough document to survive the attacks of President Roosevelt and the defense of ex-President Hoover...
...questions the correspondents could get nothing more from him than that he might be sending still another special message to Congress that afternoon. Thus it was no great surprise when White House Messenger Latta trotted into the Capitol at 2 o'clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising was that the Roosevelt message should be held back for more than two hours until Senator Pat Harrison could get the Social Security Bill through the Senate (see p. 10). Then Congressmen, quite ignorant of the President's intentions, settled...
With some pride, the New York Public Library last week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums...