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Caught at the centre of all this to-do over discipline at sea was Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. When he got a look at the Weaver dossier he thought some items to be of sufficient gravity to lay before President Roosevelt and the Cabinet...
...Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. With a self-appraisal deeper than modesty, Mr. Eden judged himself to be uninformed about the Egyptian Question and, since Egyptian students were daily rioting against the British with increasing violence, took away with him on his country holiday a heavy Foreign Office dossier on Egypt...
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...