Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, F. P. A. asked for a new contract, left his column out of the paper for one day until Publisher Reid, who does not like to sign things, acquiesced. The resulting document, to hold for three years, was signed by the columnist but never by the publisher. Last week when this "one-way" contract came up for renewal, Mrs. Reid could not break the impasse. Remarked Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Roosevelt would have the people read the Constitution for themselves, instead of hearing it as expounded from the Supreme bench. But his must be a rare edition of that document if he really expects the people to find in it the quotation he made from his fireside. He said that the framers gave Congress power "to levy taxes . . . and provide for the general welfare." Most authoritative editions would substitute...
Stalin State: "Instruct a commission. . . to elaborate a draft of a ruling for every type of school. The ruling must have a categoric and absolutely obligatory character for pupils as well as for teachers. This ruling must be the fundamental document . . . which strictly establishes the regime of studies and the basis for order in the school as well as the rules of conduct of pupils inside and outside of school. . . . Introduce in all schools a uniform type of pupils' report card on which all the principal rules for the conduct of the pupil are to be inscribed. Establish...
...Punch in the document, however, was not equal to the punch in Franklin Roosevelt's voice as he read his message to a press conference an hour before it was delivered to Congress and the Supreme Court. He beamed at newshawks with evident exuberance. He fairly smacked his lips over his adroit phrasing, revealing to the Press by intonation and ironic interjection his exhilaration over the most daring stroke he had yet attempted: his long-awaited blow to break the deadlock between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
...tight-lipped replies this week, India Office civil servants officially denied that the Durbar announcement had "political significance." They officially admitted that Sir Alexander Hardinge was "sent to India in connection with the Durbar arrangements." Presently they produced a printed document superseding the previous official but verbal announcement in terms of the Queen-Empress' health. The original verbal announcement was not denied, but the later printed announcement reads for posterity : "His Majesty the King-Emperor finds the duties and responsibilities which he has undertaken in unexpected circumstances unfortunately make it impossible for him to contemplate a prolonged absence from...