Word: documented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welch: Do you understand that J. Edgar Hoover sent to the Army a document two-and-one-fourth pages in length? Just...
Last fall, a Chinese national from Singapore ran into such difficulty. As a displaced Nationalist, he was traveling from Singapore on an English certificate of identity. By error, he was landed in Boston, rather than New York, and here immigration officials discovered that his travel document was good for only five months and six days after landing--24 days short of the required six months...
...document included: 1) denials of the Army's charges that "improper means" were used to get favors for Private Schine; 2) a charge of "misconduct and possible law violation" by Assistant Defense Secretary Hensel; 3) 20 charges that Army Counselor Adams had tried to obstruct McCarthy's investigations in various ways; 4) four similar charges against Army Secretary Stevens...
With that shocking news came an extraordinary document: Oppenheimer's answer to the Atomic Energy Commission's letter suspending him. He wrote a 43-page autobiographical sketch, because "the items of so-called 'derogatory information' set forth in your letter cannot be fairly understood except in the context of my life and work." Oppenheimer's letter shone with literary brilliance; the strength of his personality leaped out from the page. It was especially moving to men and women in the same age bracket as Oppenheimer (he is 50). Many men ten years older...
...nearly two weeks-until the National Assembly dispersed for vacation-France's canny Foreign Minister Georges Bidault kept a document locked up in his desk. Then, one day last week, he took out the paper, got Premier Laniel to summon the Cabinet to consider it. It contained Britain's terms for "associating" with the proposed European Defense Community, an association which Paris demanded as one of three major preconditions to France's final decisions...