Word: dossier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Rector-elect Young reached San Francisco, the vestry announced it was "investigating" him. Little investigation was necessary-the Industrial Association had a dossier on L. Bradford Young...
...short, the mixed currents of Democratic politics came to a grand crossing at Jefferson Islands. Party peace was the purpose and to that end Boss Farley took along a dossier full of patronage requests, Dr. Tugwell his ingratiating personality, and, above all, Franklin Roosevelt, his smile...
...cause cèleébre; after long illness (uremia); in Paris. In 1894 Captain Dreyfus, 35, first Jew on the French General Staff, was arrested on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France...
...William Green warned workers to resist any changes attempted by employers. All denounced the chiseling which "had been begun in many places." NRA ordered defunct code authorities to wire it collect reports of all code infractions. The reports were withheld from the public but compiled in a great dossier so that they might be recited as a magnificent funeral oration to make the U. S. sorry that NRA had died. Hundreds of concerns announced that they would not cut wages...
...fright at Germany's increasing air power that he proclaimed last year, "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). The scare thus started has since been etched deep into the British mind. The nation and the Cabinet were ripe last week for an elaborate dossier placed by M. Laval impressively upon the big oak table at No. 10 Downing St. This dossier of the French Secret Service and General Staff purported to reveal: 1) just how grossly Adolf Hitler has violated the Treaty of Versailles by rearming Germany, and 2) just how great is Britain...