Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...released the message and Catholic groups over the U. S. indignantly demanded an explanation from the 26 Senators and 34 Representatives who signed it. Some of the signers hastily repudiated the message upon reading it, others hemmed & hawed, few could remember the "young man" who had brought them the document to sign. Investigation disclosed the solicitors wore onetime Chicago Tribune Correspondent Jay Allen and two young women Friends of Spanish Democracy. Gasped confused Signer Tom Connally of Texas: "Merely as an act of greeting. ... I am opposed to Fascism because of its iron intolerance. ... I am also, of course, bitterly...
...handwriting were found, it should interest everybody but Baconians. For years scholars have known only seven authentic specimens of his signature, three of them in his will. Last fortnight in Salt Lake City, Professor Benjamin Roland Lewis displayed a small piece of paper cut or torn from an old document, with a common contemporary spelling of the bard's name-William Shakspere-plainly written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper in the same period. Photographic enlargements permitted minute...
...urged his listeners to regard the Constitution 'not as a dead hand of the past upon our national life, but as a living and breathing document of the present...
...continuing the drive for an athletic endowment. President Conant thinks that there exists a very great need for scholarships. Many other people think that there exists a very great need for an athletic endowment. By failing to make any mention of the latter need in his report, the document which will form a chief weapon for Harvard solicitors in the next twelve months, President Conant has by implication denied...
...Chiang Kai-shek when Chiang Kai-shek put a price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies of the Comintern, the Hunan Soviet lasted from 1930 to 1934, and with only 40,000 men stood off four attacks by Chiang...