Word: documenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been "thrust upon the United States'' by the German Government. For ten of the intervening years a conscientious, 47-year-old, Texas-born scholar, Dr. Charles Callan Tansill, onetime lecturer in diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University, has been trying to find out what happened before that document was signed-what happened to U. S. finance, the munitions industry, and public opinion; to Wilson, Bryan, Lansing and the miscellaneous group of pacifists and practical politicians who made up Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even to the hoary traditions of diplomatic usage...
...stage picture, the play is restless, intense, a tribute to Director Lee Strasberg's skill and care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...Friends until 1934, when she finally met Spy P. E. Glading a British Communist and member of the Friends who seemed to have plenty of money, plenty of colleagues whose affairs kept them traveling back & forth between London and Moscow. Miss X learned how to make photographic copies of documents for Mr. Glading, was sent by him on minor missions, finally rented with money he gave her a London flat which she equipped to function as a document-copying factory. Here Miss X worked with a couple who said they were "Mr. & Mrs. Stevens," could speak no English, talked with...
Twenty-eight typewritten pages, the Committee's document is divided into three parts, touching on the mechanism for advancement at Harvard, the methods of advancement at other colleges and an expression of the student's points of view...
Although the Report on Teachers' Advancement contains valuable suggestions, a study of the document as a whole gives a strong sense of disappointment. Appointed in the midst of the Walsh-Sweezy furore, the Student Council's committee was asked to investigate, besides "the relation of teaching and research as bases for choice and advancement of faculty members," such important topics as the social sciences trend and the worth of making departmental budgets more flexible...