Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England's Constitution, like its Common Law, is not a document but a body of precedents. It cannot be "violated" in the U. S. sense, but violation of a major precedent amounts to the same thing...
...them in the manner of U. S. announcers. When the Pope's encyclical on "Catholic Action" was to be released simultaneously in Paris and Vatican City, in case the Italian State should attempt to suppress it, it was Monsignor Spellman who forestalled any muzzling by flying with the document to Le Bourget (TIME, July 13, 1931). At the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin last June, Monsignor Spellman assisted the Papal Legate, Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, made himself helpful to U. S. newshawks, read into a microphone the English version of the Pope's blessing to the Congress...
Last week in Albany Governor Roosevelt was presented with a hard political nut, a 27,000-word document wherein slick little James John ("Jimmy") Walker hotly defended his right to remain Mayor of New York. Replying to the ouster charges filed last June by Counsel Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating Tammany corruption (TIME, June 13 et ante), Mayor Walker opened his defense with an attack. He charged that Republicans had instigated the inquiry "to divert public attention from the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the nation." He accused Mr. Seabury of "malice, slander, rancorous ill-will," of conducting...
...solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
Armed with this historic document, the aristocratic "Cabinet of Monocles" moved next morning with the precision of the old Imperial Army which they are so eager to recreate. The entire Socialist Cabinet of Premier Otto Braun of Prussia was declared deposed. Socialist Minister of the Interior Karl Severing showed fight, refused to leave the Wilhelmstrasse except by force. A squad of steel-helmeted soldiers arrived, their officers carrying clanking sabres in the old manner. Karl Severing reconsidered...