Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day of his filibuster Senator Long appeared on the floor in a loose wing collar which gave his Adam's apple greater leeway. To waste time and get a rest, he sent a document to the clerk's desk to be read aloud but Senator Glass, determined to wear out his adversary, objected. Senator Long read it himself, slowly, lingering over each word. "Am I going too fast?" he impishly asked. The Senate was practically empty as he expatiated about decentralizing wealth, remonetizing silver, taxing capital...
...items on French and German tariff lists, the treaty has stabilized rates on these items. Last week Germany and France amended their Treaty of 1927 to permit either party to raise or lower all but a few rates on 15 days notice. Thus they all but tore up a document hailed when it was signed as a. great stabilizer of European trade. Still more ominously they adopted a new interpretation of the so-called "most favored nation clause," which virtually tears that...
...mere chance Citizen Herriot picked up a copy of the 1932 budget which passed the Chamber under Premier Pierre Laval last February and passed the Senate under M. Laval's successor Premier Andre Tardieu. Thumbing through this ancient document-which dates from before the death of Aristide Briand (TIME, March 14); before the French general election which made M. Herriot premier; before the assassination of President Paul Doumer and the election of his successor President Albert Lebrun (TIME, May 16) -thumbing through the hoary pages of the bygone budget, M. Herriot came upon an item...
...Signature of France. . . . For 14 years [since the Treaty of Versailles] we have in our international life insisted on the sanctity of the written word! . . . Whatever may happen, what ever may be our passions and quarrels, let us remain faithful to the signature given, so that the document signed will not be a 'scrap of paper...
...President Lowell's term is as completely characteristic of the man as his final report to the Board of Over-seers. Superficially, the document is a terse apologia, a justification of the principles which have guided his policy throughout twenty-three years as Harvard's chief executive. But when he says that "Everything in a University is a means to a distant end," President Lowell is sounding the Keynote not only to his administration but less obviously to this, his final bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder...