Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigation of U.S. Communists on the United Nations staff. Cohn blandly implied that most of his bosses had opposed him on making public the grand jury's findings. The subcommittee report exonerated Attorney General McGranery and his staff and noted, with an acuity remarkable in a public document: "Cohn left [the subcommittee] with the impression that he is an extremely bright young man, aggressive in the performance of his duties and probably not free from the pressures of personal ambition...
...affairs, when you refer to the charge that "the Tate trustees had sold good paintings, bought inferior works at inflated prices," you do not specify what they sold, what bought. Actually what was lately sold was a nude bather by Renoir, whose popularity in contemporary America you document in your color spread in the same issue. They sold it for $16,800 . . . and their principal purchase from this money was Picasso's cubist Seated Nude Woman...
...legend asserts, he declared himself Commander-in-Chief. This is borne out by a diary describing that historical day. "Discovered" just in time for Cambridge's centennial, the diary depicts the whole episode, minus a few frills. But historians have since proved this account a forgery, written to document the celebration. Actual accounts paint a different picture of the day. The Continental troops, sick and ragged, were entrenched at the other end of Cambridge, unable to march. Washington himself makes no mention of taking command, merely stating that...
...Inslerman then produced a remarkable document. It was a copy, he said, of part of a letter he received from a man, name unknown, on a Washington street corner in 1938. He was to deliver the letter, which was written by "Bob" after his break with the party, to one "Jake," Inslerman's New York contact. Felix, in characteristic underground fashion, copied the letter before delivering it. He had lost part of his notes. What remained was garbled by wear and tear, and much of it was in underground jargon. It read...
Last week the Ministry of Church and Education published a 100-page document designed to settle the question. The solution: both sides could be right. There is "a place for shades in the interpretation of the Bible, and science has not found any homogeneous view regarding the Bible's words on perdition...