Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denying that he or any of his ministers had fled to Santander last week, Basque President Jose Antonio de Aguirre summoned newshawks to his office, handed out copies of a document addressed to the "Presidents of All Democratic European and American Nationals...
...characteristic attitudes. At the left Justice Roberts, whose recent swing to the liberals has resulted in a series of decisions upholding the New Deal, pays close attention to the white-haired attorney (centre) arguing before the Court. Next comes conservative Justice Butler, hunched in his little chair studying a document. Liberal Justice Brandeis, 80, most ancient member of the Court, looks gauntly on. Conservative Justice Van Devanter, hearing one of his last cases, has his fingers before his mouth. The Chief Justice fingers his snowy mustache. Conservative Justice McReynolds stares meditatively at the fine ceiling of the court room...
...England without its Royal Family than the U. S. without its Constitution. Last week, as in every week since President Roosevelt announced his intention of "revivifying" the Supreme Court, the Constitution was front-page news. In Washington and Philadelphia publicity-wise politicians were making capital of the grand old document's 150th anniversary. And last week appeared a timely, eminently readable history of the U. S. Constitution to show thoughtful readers what lay back of the headlines...
...rare instances of an Oxford fiction publication, "Coronation Summer," soon justifies itself as a valuable document in either fiction or non-fiction lists. It is, in short, a mirror of the early Victorian era. In the character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...
...examine the Constitutions of the modern civilized nations. They were especially impressed by Bismarck and the Prussian form of government, and also adopted some ideas from England, but after being given some copies of "The Federalist" and the American constitution they politely called it the worst. Their present document contains 76 articles, 64 of which are taken from foreign models, 42 from Germany...