Word: documented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford's director of personnel, Harry Bennett, predicted three months ago: "We will bargain until hell freezes over, but they [C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers] won't get anything." Mr. Bennett was talking about a union contract. Last week, Mr. Bennett signed his name to a document that gave U.A.W. not only all it asked for but just about everything a union man dreams about...
Thus last week wrote the New Yorker's Janet Planner-now in the U.S. but long the New Yorker's Paris correspondent in one of the best recent reports on the humiliating fate of the French press. A sobering document, it deserved double reading since the French press-by its own venalities, and its failure to see and warn the French people of the weaknesses of France-must be held in good part accountable for the disaster in which it is a chief victim...
...carefully itemized expense account ($248.67), he gave his first report: on Camp Blanding, near Jacksonville, Fla., and Fort George G. Meade, 20 miles north of the capital, Representative Engel's words grated harshly on the ears of the Quartermaster Corps. For he had found plenty to document the suspicion that, at least in Camps Meade and Blanding, the Quartermaster Corps had been guilty of bad planning and blundering stupidity. Examples...
...Addis Ababa, the Italian commander, the Duke of Aosta, left behind a note to the British commanders, General Wavell and Lieut. General Alan Gordon Cunningham, a remarkable but pathetic document of defeat...
...Carson's desk, at Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, was an arsenal of blank search warrants, summonses, writs, a full repertory of badges for police, detectives, sheriffs, coroners, Federal agents. When a story broke Carson simply faked an appropriate document. A tough, impersonating reporter or Carson himself did the rest. The evidence was usually photostated in the office, quietly returned, the forged "writ" destroyed. A dozen sets of wiretapping apparatus supplemented his arsenal...