Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abraham Lincoln. Addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, it requested that "on today, and on the first of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary . . ." Placed on public view for the first time at week's end, the document bears witness anew to the honesty of Honest Abe. Inaugurated on March 4, 1861, Lincoln decided that his pay ($25,000 a year) should not have begun until the following day, his first full day in office. So he altered "first of the month" to "fifth," thus saved the taxpayers...
...famous discipline which regulates Methodist teaching protests against Catholic teaching. Would you in public office be required to protest or suppress Catholic teaching as directed in this document? The moral, concluded The Pilot: "Anyone can play this game, if he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty...
Byrne is a man who commands strictly and by the book, a document he knows wearily and well after what seems a life-time-and-a-half as a professional sergeant in the regular U.S. Army. At 38. he holds his first commission in the 10th Cavalry* without pride. He maintains that he is color-blind-to black, red and white. But two fierce military actions teach him differently. A forced march through the badlands ends in heroics and madness, stewed rattlesnake and deep swallows of horses' blood. Finally, after many a deadly duel in the sun. comes...
...Astor was "mentally ill when the paper was executed . . . suffering from senility [and] arteriosclerosis ... incompetent to make a will." J. J.'s main chance to break the will: for undisclosed reasons, Vincent Astor was indeed a patient in Manhattan's famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic while the document was being drawn for his signature a year...
...hairdresser and New Mexico's Miss Universe entrant, who defied her archbishop by insisting that she would take part in the contest despite his ban (TIME, July 20-27). With outside help-including at least one layman trained in theology-Contestant Ingersoll last week churned out statements to document her own vision of the matter. The real issue, said Sue, is what happens when a Roman Catholic finds the charismatic (supernaturally graced) side of the church at odds with the canonical, and his private view in conflict with the church hierarchy's. Most non-Catholics, says Sue, believe...