Word: dossier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presented with a dossier of records and decisions at a Manhattan children's court she cried: "This is the choicest gift I have received since I arrived...
...series of revelations and a contemporaneous series of shocks began. Treasurer Carnes's accounts were audited-no perfunctory audit, this-and Baptists earned that the accounts were a million, perhaps more, dollars short. The Atlanta Constitution printed on its front page a facsimile of a postal department dossier which showed that Carnes twice had been indicted for using the mails to defraud. Shocked though they were, Atlanta Baptists early thought of the honor and credit of the Home Mission Board, immediately established a restitution fund to make up Carnes's alleged defalcations...
President Coolidge, in the White House, sat down to pass a pleasant evening with a dossier of papers and a pair of carpet slippers, but in the Chicago Riding Club thoroughbred horses paraded to the music of the band; society sat throned in boxes draped with Spanish shawls, which gave the place the appearance of a bull ring; delegations of children from the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant orphanages and from the Illinois Children's Home clapped their hands in delight. Once the great gathering sucked in its breath and stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that...