Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This innocuous document known as the King's Speech," cried Old George waving a copy, "is full of emptiness from beginning...
...Committee continued its secret sessions. No witnesses were called, no testimony was taken. Finally a report? "a damned good one," Admiral Rodman called it?was prepared and on the morning of the third day the committee sent it to the White House. The President read the 10,000-word document with satisfaction for, as all the world expected, it found that he was right and Mr. Gardiner wrong...
...President Hoover's Committee on Unemployment Relief was busy last week. Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford was in the second week of his five-week campaign to raise funds locally for Unemployment relief. Meantime the committee's sub-committee on Employment Plans & Suggestions drafted a 6,000-word document telling the U. S. what it must do to lift itself out of the Depression...
...Salomon bought himself one of these cameras, gave up his job and set out to make his new kind of historic document -photographs of the great as they really are, working, talking, eating, yawning. He climbed up a fire ladder disguised as a painter to take pictures of "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on his hotel balcony at The Hague. He disguised himself as a waiter. He camouflaged himself behind potted palms. Temperamental conductors let him sit with the first violins...
...significance of 1215 can be found in Kipling's "The Reeds of Runnymede" which the Vagabond would like to suggest as a comfortable method of absorbing history. Because he knows the lassitude of the mind, he will quote four lines from it which contain the spirit of the document...