Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that "prosperity in full measure must await the satisfactory adjustment of accounts between debtor and creditor nations of the world and the restoration of international monetary standards." The speech finished, the Commons filed back to their own House. The Mace was carried to & fro. Bill No. 1 (a dummy document) was read as usual. Parliament was in session...
Tightly packed into a null 61-page document, the Glass reforms last week lay on a table of a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. The document was headed: A bill to provide for the safer and more effective use of the assets of Federal Reserve Banks and of National Banking Associations, to regulate interbank control, to prevent the undue diversion of funds into speculative operations and for other purposes. Should it become law, it would go down in history as "The Banking...
...late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed Lawyer Martin Wiley Littleton won an acquittal by rehearsing for a spellbound jury the story of the publisher's life, loud-pedaling the part about his brilliant Civil War record, notably his service with Custer at Gettysburg...
Last week President Hoover sent his third State-of-the-Union message to Congress. It was a grave, thoughtful document, shot with hope. Clerks droned it out to a House and Senate which accepted it as the Hoover platform for next year's campaign. Contents...
...Where is the Constitution, and who are the select few that wrote it? Perhaps it is not, as was granted above, such a fine document. At least it would be interesting to know something about it. The machine in urban polities is possible because the voters are ignorant and needy, and because those who should vote, are indifferent and don't. In this case the ignorance of the members of the Class, is not their fault. They have never had a chance to see the Constitution. The indifference is their fault, and this may be also properly considered an appeal...