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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responded scholarly Archibald MacLeish: ". . . The deposit of such a document in such a place is an action full of meaning for our time. . . . For generations past we have taught our children . . . that our institutions of representative government were dependent on our constitutional charter for their existence. We have more recently learned, and now believe, that the opposite is also true: that without the institutions of representative government the charters of the people's rights cannot be saved...
When a dusty copy of the will of T. Jefferson Coolidge came to light last spring, the Corporation discovered that for forty years it had been mistaken about that document. Instead of establishing an unrestricted fund to encourage debating, as had long been supposed, the will provided that the sum was to be entirely devoted to prizes for outstanding debaters. The Corporation promptly enforced this provision, and the Harvard University Debating Council found itself penniless...
...portly, potbellied, black-mustachioed Philadelphia lawyer named John Graver Johnson (tops among U. S. corporation lawyers and trust protectors of his time) drew up a noteworthy document. It was an iron-clad lease by which Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. promised to pay 49 small traction companies $7,100,000 a year for 999 years for the privilege of running its street cars over their right of way. For the stockholders of the 49 underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted...
...tall, lean, sad-eyed man sat at his desk last week in his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo near Rome. Before him was the text of a 13,000-word document which he had written and re-written three times in longhand. Pope Pius XII made some final corrections, sent the document off to the Vatican printers. It was his first encyclical, long delayed by the seismic events of World War II. Non-Catholics as well as Catholics waited to hear it as the keynote of the Holy Father's reign. Two days later the encyclical, entitled, from...
Aside from these two scenes and some very interesting shots of pre-sound direction, the rest of the picture is taken up with a verbose plot about a director and his star. Alice Faye and Don Ameche do the best they can, but "Hollywood Cavalcade" is primarily a historical document, and, as such, is a fine show...