Word: documented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committeemen reeled for an hour under the impact of Paul's 33-page document, then recovered to deliver body blows of their own. Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like...
Wake Island (Paramount) is the first attempt to make a document of U.S. troops in action in World War II. As a straight Hollywood show, the result is better-than-average. As an effort to fill civilians with the image and meaning of a terrible and magnificent human event, it is as good, and as far short of good enough, as can be expected of producers who underrate their subject, their audience, their moment in history, and the tremendous powers of the medium they work with...
Most of the shots were made by Russian cameramen accompanying the Soviet troops who pushed the Germans away from Moscow last winter. Their work makes a bitter, revealing, angry document. It shows, where words fail, the enormous physical impetus required to get a military offensive going in the paralyzing cold of the Russian winter. It also shows, by acres of matériel that the retreating Germans left behind, that their withdrawal was by no means strategic...
...believe that after this war we will see a tremendous revival of faith in God. With this as the basis, the future peace treaties will insure a humane and liberal world, where man will live in good will with his neighbor, not merely because of some human document created and signed by men, but because in his heart and soul he will remember and practice in his everyday life the Ten Commandments which God gave Moses on Mount Sinai...
Broken Strategy. The cynics were unfair. The Atlantic Charter was a nobly conceived document. Its failure was that it had not yet been implemented, a year later, by the specific words, the specific deeds, that would make its words shake the world...