Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valid reason for keeping Badoglio in the Government was that he and shelved King Vittorio Emanuele III had signed the Italian armistice. That document was still in effect, still a factor in Allied relations with Italy. Before he would consent to swallow Bonomi & Co., Mr. Churchill reportedly insisted that each member of the new Cabinet sign the armistice, accept its terms in toto...
...evidence illuminating this decision was wanted, it was available last week in a document (Psychology of a Bond Drive) produced by Columbia University's Office of Radio Research. It recorded the results of a questioning of some 1,000 New Yorkers concerning their reaction to radio's part in the Third and Fourth War Bond Drives. Particularly interesting were the comments of 100 citizens specially cross-questioned about Kate Smith's 17-hour radio marathon over CBS (total pledges: $39,000,000) on Sept. 21, 1943. Those comments told a lot about the U.S. radio audience. Some...
...simple story of a Swedish coal-barge captain, his daughter and an Irish stoker, and the situation arising from her admission that she has been a prostitute, is not the supreme literary expression of man's conflict with the elements or the great American social document. The characters have a tendency to become types and the primary meaning of the play is often confused. The actors, although expertly directed in the mechanics of the play, have therefore concentrated on conforming to stock theatre types rather than on subtle and original characterizations...
Against Oblivion is not exactly a fictionized biography, since letters and diaries carefully document it, but it includes a few invented scenes and speeches. The work of Sheila, Countess of Birkenhead (daughter-in-law of Severn's grandson) it is a labor of love in more senses than one. The affection for Keats with which it is suffused, its portrait of the gentle, sturdy, unworldly, innocent and perceptive Severn, its wonderful picture of Severn's happy family life make it a biography as tender and moving as any in recent literature...
Paper by Lord Woolton, Minister of Reconstruction, it may well turn out to be a historic document, not only for the English, but for Americans. The reason: Winston Churchill's Government became the first major democratic government to shoulder a broad, new, postwar governmental responsibility: the prevention of depressions...