Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milk at Midnight. Beyond these gen eral objectives, Candidate Dewey, in effect, wanted the Governors to produce a new Republican platform, going specifically beyond the generalities of the Chicago document. Beyond that, Tom Dewey wanted to get 26 G.O.P. Governors accustomed to working as a team...
...estimated. Thus, since the top bracket is 90%, even a slight upward revision of the average base would mean an enormous rebate. To make sure that no corporation was frozen out of at least a chance to claim such a recount, Congress made Section 722 a long, loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits were below normal, it could compute a new average tax base for four normal years. Then Congress dumped the actual settlement of cases into...
This week in Chicago, Senator Samuel Jackson, the convention's permanent chairman, received the letter which Franklin Roosevelt had promised Henry Wallace. While 150-odd reporters fought for mimeographed copies, the Senator read the already-famous document over the CBS network: "I like Henry Wallace and I respect him, and he is my personal friend. For these reasons, I personally would vote for his renomination if I were a delegate. ... At the same time, I do not wish to appear in any way as dictating to the convention. Obviously the convention must do the deciding. And it should...
...impatient colonel handed the President a prepared document which stated that the President hereby voluntarily resigned. The President refused to sign...
...Passage to India was first published in 1924. Beautiful, ironic, crystal-clear, intense - "one of the saddest, keenest, most beautifully written ironic novels of the time" - at once "a political document of the first importance," "a masterpiece of subtle characterization" with "a story that moved like a house on fire," A Passage to India evoked tremendous critical enthusiasm. In 20 years it sold almost 100,000 copies in the U.S., yet it never became an integral part of ordinary U.S. cultural life or political thought...