Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this spirit the Secretary of State took pen and signed the only document which was complete, a pledge under which the signatories promise to sign later, after appropriate investigation, such of five peace pacts sponsored by Argentina as they have not signed already (TIME, Dec. 25). It was the sole binding act performed by the U. S. Delegation at the Conference. Left unsigned by the U. S. was the Treaty on Equal Nationality Rights for Women...
...later Acting Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the House Ways & Means Committee, which since last summer has been casting about for ways & means of constructing a non-leaking income tax law. The fat document which Mr. Morgenthau. adjusting his pince-nez, rose to read the committee had been prepared for him by his tax man, Professor Roswell Magill of Columbia. Mr. Morgenthau's professor generally approved the first draft of the committee's tax plan (TIME, Dec. 18). But he had some ideas of his own. Most popular was reduction of levies on earned income. Most novel proposal...
...will be very difficult for the generation which found consciousness during the twenties to assess the value of this work. For, however much its editors have sought to make it an historical document, this photographic panorama of the United States since 1860 must, through its very character, remain an effort dedicated to the artful stimulation of nostalgia. Perhaps that virus, bolstered as it is by the camera and by Mr. Allen's informal chatter, will prove itself not yet exhausted by the thorough ministrations of Mr. Mark Sullivan and the self-styled humorous magazines. One is inclined to feel however...
...Murry has given us a strange, and a touching, meta-physical exegesis of these passages. Mrs. Carswell took the more obvious line of branding Murry as a traitor to Lawrence; Murry has shown that she left very little of literary ethic intact after "The Savage Pilgrimage". As a document for the understanding of the controversy. Mr. Murry's book is valuable, as a key to Mr. Murry's psychology it takes rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise" on God. The excerpts from his criticisms of Lawrence's books give new substance to Middleton Murry's position...
...social service. An active minister and city missions worker, he believed that "when the standards of the Gospel shall have become the rule of Society, His Kingdom will be here." He wrote the first social creed for the Federal Council which was the cornerstone of its existence. That stirring document called for conciliation and arbitration in industrial disputes; protection of workers against dangerous machinery and occupational diseases; abolition of child labor; suppression of the "sweating system"; reduction of working hours with at least one day in seven free; a living wage; "suitable provision" for old and incapacitated workers. Tame though...