Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signatories to this remarkable document...
Flurry. Who drafted this unprecedented document? Its purveyors refused to say. The hundred odd famed signatures made it white-hot news. Fearful of lagging behind, the great news agencies tarried not to investigate but broadcast this roundest of round robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom...
...Bank, a signatory, said: "The manifesto is not intended to have any reference to the United States." Apparently this view was shared by other U. S. signatories who pointed to the title of the manifesto which explicitly restricts its application to Europe. Public opinion seemed inclined to let the document drop as a mere "pious plea" like those often uttered for "peace," "disarmament" and what...
Leniniana? As if to render the humbling of Leon Trotzky more abject, there came to light last week what purports to be an authentic "deathbed memorandum" by the great Lenin, warning Russian Communists against Joseph Stalin. This document, allegedly suppressed by M. Stalin since the death of Lenin (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), was given front page position last week by the New York Times and many another respected U. S. newsorgan...
...next anthem without difficulty, "The Star Spangled Banner," which heralded the performance of the champion U. S. school orator, Herbert Wenig of Los Angeles. Herbert repeated the piece on "The Constitution" which had won him the national championship last June. It included the sentences: "The pages of this sacred document are fast crumbling away. . . .Baptized by our fathers' blood, consecrated by our mothers' tears, dedicated to immortality by a free people, may our Constitution ever stand as the emblem of 'Peace on earth, good will towards...