Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street to transact some business with J. P. Morgan & Co., his biggest bankers. As he chatted in an inner office someone summoned him to an adjoining room. There he found an old friend, Joseph R. Nutt, Cleveland banker. After a brief conversation Mr Nutt produced a document. He beamed while Mr. Van Sweringen signed...
Last week, on the basis of that meeting and that document, a county grand jury in Cleveland indicted Messrs. Nutt and Van Sweringen for fraudulently deceiving the public...
Most of his life has been devoted to the study of behavior in anthropoid apes. His most famous work, "The Mentality of Apes," is recognized as the authoritative document on the subject. He has published many other books in the same field, among them important investigations of the intelligence of chimpanzees, which have won world-wide renown. Professor Kohler has been in the United States several times on lecture tours and is the brother of Wilhelm R. W. Kohler, recently appointed full professor in Fine Arts. The two previous incumbents of the William James chair were Professor John Dewey...
Hardly less spirited than the Herald Tribune was the Boston Herald: "The President's executive order is an amazing document . . . argumentative, bad-mannered, and offensive. . . . The alleged discourtesy of Colonel Lindbergh in giving out his letter to the President prematurely seems an act of studied, Chesterfieldian deference in comparison...
...book is heartily recommended to those who like the flavor of the old West, but are fed up with fake thrillers. It is a document in the history of that genuine Western culture, primitive as it was, which the expansion of the nation swept away. The only account comparable to it in conveying the real note of the cowboy era is that brief description written by Samuel Eliot Morison (of all people!) in the "Oxford History of the United States...