Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Wiseman "head of the British Secret Service in the U. S., the chief British spy in America, now associated with Otto Hermann Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [New York bankers] was the author of an amazing secret document sent to David Lloyd George after the War. The document was saturated with hostility toward the U. S. and proposed a 'United States of Europe,' " asserted Shearer...
...dozen policemen rushed from offices in the Prefecture to collar Murderer Philipponet and clap him into a cell he screamed: "Monsieur Bayle committed an act of bad faith! My document was genuine! What I have done was worth the death of a father of five children...
Fortnight ago Gaston Bayle, in the course of a morning's routine work, proved fraudulent a document with which one Joseph Emile Philipponet, traveling salesman, had attempted to obtain a sum of money from his landlord. Last week the thwarted Philipponet came early to the Prefecture of Police, hung about the draughty corridor until Criminologist Bayle stepped briskly through the door, started upstairs to his beloved laboratory. Stepping forward, Salesman Philipponet fired three times. The great Gaston Bayle swayed, then rolled to the stairs, sprawled, gasped up a mouthful of blood, was dead...
...realm of history and literature, the Amy Lowell collection of autographs is outstanding: letters from the correspondence of Madame de Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte...
Baker Library would also aim to become a treasure house of information on business that is past. To this purpose the Aldrich Room, the corporation collection, and the original document division, are severally devoted. The Aldrich Room, founded on the collection of finance material assembled by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, forms the center for the provision of material on banking, finance, and the tariff, covering both the distant and recent past; while it also serves as a reading room to those who would study at leisure the development of the United States in these lines...