Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smiled dourly. But the argument went on to its conclusion, the Justices interrupting occasionally to make inquiries. Finally they rose and filed out in their customary dignity without either the attorneys or the courtroom audience realizing that they had witnessed the reception by the Supreme Court of an historic document: Franklin Roosevelt's message to Congress recommending a reorganization of the judicial branch of the Government-an oil-smooth state paper that packed terrific political punch...
...event of my death and appoint her my executrix." No such simple will was one which a Philadelphia lawyer named Solomon L. Fridenberg brought before Surrogate James A. Delehanty last week in Manhattan and asked him to interpret. Lawyer Fridenberg admitted he had drawn the seven-page closely-written document with five codicils for a client, since deceased. What he wanted to know from the Surrogate was: Did the will create trusts or did it grant annuities? Reading the will put Surrogate Delehanty in fine rhetorical fettle. Said he: "The court perceives the effect of that fine frenzy in composition...
...actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination- almost the last stand-of the Romantic Movement in music," was a Petersburg law student of 22 when he first became seriously interested in music. Once he caught fire he blazed...
...Great Document." President Roosevelt began the fashioning of his bomb innocuously enough last year by appointing three scholars to a committee on Administrative Management, charged with preparing a program for Government reorganization. Chairman was Louis Brownlow, 57, stubby, highbrowed, oldtime newspaperman who has held many a civic planning post, is now a University of Chicago lecturer on government and director of a coordinating agency called Public Administration Clearing House. Other members were University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, Columbia's Professor of Municipal Science Luther Halsey Gulick. After lengthy palaver and much questionnairing...
...about a poor family named Adamec. The father has been out of work three years. The mother scrubs and washes. The elder son ruins his health in a juvenile sweat shop and the younger shoots the sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers, panic-stricken when one of them gets caught in a machine, storm the locked fire exits...