Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...document's seven carefully worded pages, crammed with lengthy quotations from Popes Leo XIII, Pius XI and Pius XII, are a prime example of ecclesiastical double talk, significant mainly for what they left...
...Vichy collaboration came to a crisis. From the nearby listening post of Berne, Switzerland, it was reported that Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain would soon go to Paris to sign a document that already bore the signature of Adolf Hitler...
...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
Recently Fields drew blood. Universal sent him a legal document threatening court action if he didn't mend his studio manners (i.e., references to company executives, language in front of cinemoppets, general demeanor). Back came a reply: "Dear Sir, Mr. Fields and I read your letter and did we laugh." It was signed "Adele" (Fields's Negro housemaid...
Hollywood has produced nothing that begins to match the poignant tragedy of this picture since "The Grapes of Wrath" or "The Long Voyage Home." As a sociological document, the scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...