Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate committees last week began a study of the provisions and implications of the London Naval Treaty. The document was officially before the Foreign Relations Committee where a friendly attitude toward it was manifested by members, including Pennsylvania's Senator Reed and Arkansas' Senator Robinson, both delegates to the London parley. The Naval Affairs Committee, under the nervous leadership of Maine's Senator Hale, conducted hearings in an atmosphere hostile to the agreement which was, under the Senate rules, none of its official business. Senator Hale, a big Navy man, did everything possible to develop the worst...
...There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
...sanitoriums with a mental breakdown. It was caused by his foolish fear of being an epileptic, his overwork as a Yale undergraduate and later as an insurance clerk. Although wracked by wild illusions, his mind lucidly registered on his experiences. When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement for a National Committee on Mental Hygiene? William Henry Welch, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould...
...Navy Adams, Senator Joseph Robinson. A naval and a military aide stood by as the President and the three members of the U. S. delegation at the London Conference ranged themselves before the Movie tone cameras. As the cranks began to turn, Statesman Stimson passed President Hoover a document, said: "Mr. President, I have the honor to hand you herewith the Treaty concluded at London. . . . I wish to thank you for the honor and privilege of participating in the Treaty." negotiation and conclusion of the Declared President Hoover, as he took the Treaty: "Mr. Secretary, I wish to thank...
...feeling of gratitude to Miss Hahn. She has removed the false whiskers from a topic of major interest, and revealed it glittering and elegant, a general mode, no less. We are not maintaining, however, that there won't be some who will feel ethically unbuttoned by this scientific document, some who will consider it too elementary, and a few who will be eighteen-ninety, relegating it hastily to the Nokol fireplace. But the tract will continue to speak firmly for itself The more who read it, certainly the better...