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...Approved a note sent by Secretary Hull to London, asking the British Government not to apply to U. S. ships and goods the British blockade program. The document, purely a matter of form, will halt no British seizures, but aids establishment of a base for later damage-delay claims...
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...
...document of the British Blue Book which places the war guilt on Germany is the British message to Germany on Aug. 28, three days before the invasion, saying that definite Polish consent to negotiate was at hand. That message, said the German Foreign Office, "was a sheer...
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...