Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hobble down the aisle of the House last week and sign a petition to bring from the Judiciary Committee to the House floor a Wet proposal to modify the 18th Amendment. But the 145 signatures necessary to put the petition into parliamentary action were still incomplete as the document lay for the fifth day on the Speaker's desk...
...gift to Harvard does not appear in the will, which was a one paragraph document with its terms embodied in five lines. The fund was established under separate agreement whereby Mr. Robinson was to receive the interest from a $1,500,000 fund during his life, while the principle was to revert to the University upon his death...
...Alfalfa Bill" needed no political introduction to Oklahoma voters. His picture was in most State history schoolbooks because he had presided at the Guthrie Convention in 1906 which wrote the Constitution admitting Oklahoma to the Union. In fact he claimed to have written most of that 45,000-word document. He had served as Speaker of the first State Legislature, only to be beaten for Governor in 1910. Elected in 1912 to the House of Representatives he was beaten in 1916 because he dared to predict that President Wilson, instead of "keeping us out of War" would...
...history of the Lincoln-Douglas debates is open at an interesting account of the disastrous effect of the first debate on Mr. Lincoln. There is an early copy of Congressman Lincoln's speech on the Mexican War, delivered in 1848 and several reproductions of early pictures. Among the Lincoln documents are an appointment, letters to the Secretaries of State and of the Interior and an early document in his own hand...
...could vouch for the validity of the explanation which Dr. Rhoads last week sent to Governor Beverley: "Regret very much that fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as parody on supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken literally by any one. Of course nothing in the document was ever in-tended to mean other than opposite of what was stated. Nevertheless, if slightest seriousness is really attached to any aspect of this subject I will be glad to return to Porto Rico immediately and place...