Word: documented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then began a twelve-year war between Pro-and Anti-Semites. In 1897 one Major Esterhazy of the French Army was accused of having written the treasonable document imputed to Captain Dreyfus. He was tried, secretly, by a military court and, no Jew, was acquitted. In 1898 Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the French President, accused the general staff of having convicted Alfred Dreyfus because of his race. Zola was tried for libel, convicted, and had to leave France hurriedly to avoid imprisonment. Later in 1898, however, it was shown that some of the prosecution's evidence...
...with the idea of imparting a bipartisan color to the Delegation (on which he was the only Republican) and was in no position to exercise a dominating influence. After the Versailles Treaty was drawn up, Mr. White sought to arrange a compromise by which the Senate might ratify the document, but the disagreements between the Senate and the President became and remained so acute that no compromise was possible...
Eager RUSTLE OF SPRING- Clare Cameron-Doran ($2). When Clare Cameron was a little girl she lived, like her contemporary, Author Thomas Burke, in the slums of London. Her parents were stodgy, honest, bourgeois, with numerous aunts and cousins. Clare grew up with a longing for "finer things." This document of her callow years is marred by an overdose of sentimental estheticism and a dismaying lack of humor. She seems a little too sure that she was an unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography...
...theory of nationalization of the land appealed to many U. S. property holders (especially oil magnates) in Mexico as a pernicious and unsound doctrine. It was denounced as confiscatory, especially since Mexican officials were planning to make their Constitution retroactive and to invalidate titles secured long before the 1917 document was written. So Ambassador Sheffield led no entirely placid existence...
...Myron Timothy Herrick would simply have sent this communication on through ordinary channels to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. He did not do so. Instead, Mr. Herrick made a gesture worthy of France and the U. S. He ordered his bags packed, took the so vital document into his personal care, and embarked on the maiden voyage of the just completed flagship of the French Line, the Ile de France (sixth largest ship-41,000 tons). That Mr. Herrick had previously planned to come home, anyway, did not alter the effectiveness of his beau geste...