Word: documented
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Poland. It was announced in Berlin that 150 Poles had been executed since Germany's attack on Russia. But this was only an infinitesimal part of the Polish horror described in a report issued in Vatican City. In this document Catholic clergy and laymen who had left Poland stated their belief that Adolf Hitler intended nothing less than the extermination of the Polish people. They estimated that in the past two years the Nazis had killed 40,000 Poles, jailed 60,000, forced 540,000 into Germany as laborers...
Ecdysiast Lee's Minsky background, rich show-business vocabulary and stage-door gags make her book almost a social document. She has the good sense to leave Spinoza and Proust out of it. The real Gypsy has no need of Proust - or of ghosts...
...course, no matter where she was employed, any plowboy might have fathered Hitler's grandmother's son. But Thyssen says that Hitler's spies told him of the existence of the document, that it was probably a factor in Dollfuss' assassination, that Hitler later wrested it from Schuschnigg. Thyssen also heard that a copy of it was "in the hands of the British Secret Service...
Last week Editor Gauvreau published his confessions*- a sulfurous document which ordinary newsmen found alternately exciting, terrifying, hilarious, gagging, slightly sanctimonious, good for their souls. Confesses Gauvreau: "I was a part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike." Better reading than Gauvreau's penitent philosophies are anecdotes of his colleagues. Samples...
Well might the President consider carefully before signing that mammoth document. It is the biggest tax bill in U.S. history. To the $9,500,000,000 which the U.S. would have paid next year under the present tax rates, it adds another $3,553,400,000, a sum that in 1927 would have run the U.S. Government for a whole year, but next year will last less than eleven weeks...