Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belonged originally to two German aviators, that the unknown aviator was one Lauro de Bosis, Italian esthete, whose mother, the former Lillian Vernon of Syracuse, N. Y., was arrested in Rome last year as an anti-Fascist propagandist. Last week, hope for Aviator de Bosis gone, a curious document appeared in Paris. Written by young de Bosis in the expectation that he would be shot down over Italy, it was entitled: THE STORY OF MY DEATH. Excerpts...
...document the contents of which have a rather familiar ring is a petition by the residents of Stoughton Hall "that some measures may be adopted, by which better care may be taken of our rooms." "At present," the petition reads, "the object seems to be to do as little as possible, and in as short a time as possible, and finding that our personal requests and remonstrances have no permanent effect, we adopt this mode of seeking redress...
...King Alexander, sober behind his glittering pince-nez, told them that his three-year Dictatorship was at an end (TIME, Jan. 14, 1929 et seq.). Before the Ministers had recovered from their astonishment. Minister of the Court Jevtitch stood up and read them Jugoslavia's new Constitution. This document was evolved by no convention. It is the handiwork of shrewd King Alexander himself. Points...
...Another document temporarily lost at the White House last week was China's inquiry about Farm Board wheat (see p. 11). The State Department said the message had gone to the White House. There a "stated official source"-that is, the Hoover secretariat which has replaced the "White House spokesman" since the President plugged news leaks-denied its receipt. Later the Chinese inquiry turned up, somehow, at the Farm Board...
...general manager of Grain Stabilization Corp. is official custodian for some 200,000,000 bu. of U. S. wheat. There he was greeted by suave, dark Ambassador Rinaldo de Lima e Silva. After exchanging amenities, they sat down together at a table, squiggled their names to a document. When they got up and shook hands, the U. S. had contracted to trade Brazil 25,000,000 bu. of wheat for 1,050,000 bags of Sao Paulo coffee...