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Word: documents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entered some Hungarian gendarmes with drawn pistols, forced Vincent Pecha to throw up his hands, searched him, clapped gyves upon his wrists. In the room next to the station restaurant "a secret military document" was found. Using suitable pressure, the Hungarians got Pecha to admit having hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Again, Spies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...years have passed since the German peace emissaries at Versailles were forced to sign a document which was a bitter disappointment to all friends of justice and true peace. . . . Germany signed it without admitting that she was the sole author of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anniversary of Guilt | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...last week President Hoover walked solemnly from the Cabinet Room through the short passage to his own office. Behind him came a small procession of House and Senate leaders. The President seated himself at his broad desk, hitched his chair closer, reached out and drew to him a document labeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Constructive Start | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it in ink, write the word '"Hoover." Then the President looked up, smiled. He had got at last what he wanted as farm relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Constructive Start | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...President, the House of Representatives has passed House Bill 2667 ... in which the concurrence of the Senate is requested." Thereupon Clerk Chaffee passed his document over to the Senate attendant, bowed again from the waist, smiled, backed out of the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: To the Senate | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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