Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London club called "Churchill's" (no kin), and a fan letter addressed to her was mistakenly delivered to the old statesman. Churchill forwarded it with a note of his own: "My dear Miss Kitt, I presume that this extraordinary document was meant...
...Secretary was also mad at Missouri's Republican Senator James P. Kem, who had charged that the Agriculture Department juggled storage rules to please old friends of the Administration. Senator Kem, said Brannan, was against "nearly everything the farmers needed"; what was more, he was willing to document the charges. Cried Kem: "I'm putting you on notice right now that, libel laws being what they are, you'd better document them very thoroughly." After Kem refreshed Brannan on his voting record, Brannan backed down...
Newspapers the world over picked up the story* and denials came from everybody from Fechteler himself to Churchill. But Le Monde stuck to its story. Le Monde's Editor-in-Chief André Chēnebenoit said that British intelligence had intercepted the "document" early this year, and that Le Monde had bought it from Jacques Bloch-Morhange, who runs his own private newsletter in Paris. Despite this dubious source, Editor Chēnebenoit and Le Monde Director Hubert Beuve-Méry ordered the letter printed without consulting the paper's other editors. Said Chēnebenoit...
Then came the payoff. In Amsterdam last week, Albert Besnard, a naval affairs editor, of the daily Algemeen Handelsblad, read Le Monde's "document" and thought it had a vaguely familiar ring. Digging into his closet, Besnard found some old copies of the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. In the September 1950 issue he found an article by Commander Anthony Talerico, U.S.N., entitled "Sea of Decision." Almost word for word, many parts of it were identical with the so-called "Fechteter report." Instead of being a state paper, the arguments were the hazy theorizing of an unknown junior...
...chairman waved his document through the air. Do I hear a motion to pass the constitution?" It was passed. "Now we'll have nominations." continued the chairman. "I want to make it clear that I'll accept no office...