Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a South Sea Island book. In addition it is, categorically speaking, what is known as a "personal record" or a "human document." Having thus damned it one must hasten to award to it a very high degree of praise. As the unknown author points out, those who have given the South Seas their vogue in the literature of the day are essentially visiting journalists; nor does he except R. L. S. This book, on the contrary, is made up of a series of letters addressed to a friend, Mr. Bohan Lynch, which cover a period of some nine...
There is a document beginning, " We, the people ..." of which certain men exclaim: " We, the people, are unfairly treated by it." It is the Constitution of the United States. The exclaimers are the " radicals" and liberals of Congress. The unfairness which they find in it is that the Supreme Court may (by a five to four decision) overrule an act of Congress...
...document beginning "We, the people...
...Constitution is divided into 13 sections and subdivided into 141 articles. It has taken about ten years to complete and is said to be an " historic document." The provisional Constitution drawn up at Nanking in 1911 is now superseded...
...likelihood of there being one), received a note from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking on the bandit incident of last May.* The note was signed by the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba. The imposing document was delivered at the Chinese Foreign Office by Senhor Frei tas, Portuguese Minister to China and doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking. It is difficult to see how the Powers can possibly expect Dr. Koo to take any satisfactory action on the note, because the country is actually in the hands...