Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What confounded Justice was Mrs. Collins' new affidavit, to the effect that her "confession" was a document prepared for her by one John M. Timmons, a retired merchant, friend of Ben Bess. Timmons paid her $50, she said, for signing the document. She, illiterate, had not read it. She thought it just meant she forgave Ben Bess "for the wrong he had done her." Mrs. Collins, now threatened with perjury proceedings, maintained as at the original trial that Ben Bess raped...
...Skupshtina or Parliament of Jugoslavia at Belgrade last week the leader of the Opposition, famed Stefan Raditch, was directing a furious filibuster against the Government's proposal to sign with Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...
...convention's morning session received the platform from the resolutions committee. Senator Smoot read the long document...
slow-footed Borah insisted on phrasing the Prohibition promise his own way. Farmers' Friends kept the convention waiting, and the platform-builders sleepless, with their vain insistence upon a different farm plank (see p. 15). In the end, Senator Smoot pumped all the breath he could into a document containing the following phrases...
...hand was the hand of Senator George W. Norris, the deep-eyed, thin-lipped Nebraskan who is guarding the elder La Follette's mantle until the son is sere enough to wear it. They guessed so partly, perhaps, from the difficulty the young man sometimes experienced shifting his document back and forth to facilitate gesturing; and from the unreality of the gesture which the young man made while saying, "We denounce." People who denounce in their own words do not need to study their gestures. Moreover, many a Norris phrase was there: "bankruptcy has stalked," "the spectre of peasantry...