Word: documenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned all copyright privileges, leaving Drs. Waddell & Haag free to offer the books to schools in other States if they dared...
...showed traces of dye, was arrested on the Europa with several letters she had been engaged to deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service, and Army authorities doubted that...
With 125 signatures on the petition, the Freshmen who are trying to end their class election scheduled for next month will present the document to the Student Council, its sponsors said last night...
...neglected books of U. S. literature. It belongs with the best biographies by virtue of its accuracy, its almost unique tone that manages to combine veneration for a great man with shrewd understanding of a human being. But in addition to these qualities, Herndon's Lincoln is a document as essentially American as Whitman's poems, not only in its grasp of the tough frontier world in which Lincoln grew, but in its belief in U. S. democracy, its recognition of democracy's weaknesses, its sturdy faith in the common people...
Last week that 30-pound manuscript was published-a grisly, 345-page document that sent queasy readers out for fresh air, sounded fantastic enough to be the truth. Less emotional than Dreyfus' famed account of his five-year exile, Belbenoit's covers more ground, is heavy with unrelieved nightmare...