Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were privately blaming the ideas in the tax veto message on Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, the words on Judge Rosenman. The facts: the message was no hastily okayed product of a Presidential ghost, no result of a sudden fit of Presidential temper. Mr. Roosevelt had been poring over the document for more than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson had strongly favored the veto. But many a White House adviser had argued even more strongly against it. When one of them pointed out that Congressional tempers were already...
...days of momentous conferences ended with Prime Ministers John Curtin of Australia and Peter Fraser of New Zealand seated at a historic table. On it, in 1900, Queen Victoria scratched her Royal assent to a Constitution for Australia. On it, last week, two Laborites committed their countries to a document which, they hope, may become the Charter of the Southwest Pacific...
...Campaign Document? Many a Congressman thought he knew the answer to the President's change of mind: 1944 is an election year. But if the President's message was a campaign document, it was an extraordinary one. Mr. Roosevelt, as Walter Lippmann pointed out, seemed to assume that "it is good politics in the year 1944 to propose the very things which no other politician has ever regarded as anything but straight political suicide." And "we all know that Mr. Roosevelt is just about the shrewdest and most successful practical politician of our time...
...American Document. The Gay Illiterate is as much an American document as The Education of Henry Adams. It is the self-recorded sound track of a smalltown, intensely feminine mind which for 30 years, with unabated enthusiasm and energy, has been hanging over Hollywood's back fence, talking like a ruptured water main to hundreds of thousands of other smalltown, intensely feminine minds. Most of the talk is a nonstop, hypnotic colloquy, starched with babbling anecdote. But the book includes little about Lolly Parsons as good as the things it leaves...
Roots in the Earth in a basic American document. It is a well-argued, practical book that in no invidious sense smells of the barnyard...