Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aisles were filled with milling delegates. Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, accustomed to a high degree of buzz-buzz while platforms are being read, decided that this was too much. He whacked down his big wooden gavel and shouted: "The convention will please come to order. This is an important document . . . The delegates should at least know what they're going to vote on in a few minutes...
When both Taft and Ike agreed that he should draft the plank, Dulles went to work. A week before the convention began, he arrived in Chicago with a 1,000-word document. Last week, after Dulles had shuttled between the opposing camps, he had a plank which both sides approved with comparatively minor reservations. Millikin's resolutions committee edited it (mostly to put in such barbs as "betrayed," "flouted" and "tragic blunders" when referring to the Truman Administration's foreign policy...
...sights on the target almost the first day she entered the Archives. It was then that she happened to discover a document concerning a man named Pedro de Lepe, one of the most controversial figures aboard the Santa Maria. A longtime Columbus enthusiast, Alice Gould knew that most historians doubted De Lepe ever existed. The document, she felt, furnished absolute proof that...
...Kremlin took these gentle snubs for a number of years, but in 1934 his passport expired. To replace it he procured from the University an awesome document covered with a huge golden Harvard Seal, pronouncing him a professor in good standing, and an affidavit signed and sealed by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts declaring the first document "genuine." The twin seals, under which an array of visas was soon attached, never failed to dazzle frontier authorities...
...Eisenhower Memorial Foundation . . . This speech hit me so hard that I tried all afternoon to get a transcript of it ... Some of America's best-known newspapermen didn't even bother to cover the event . . . I think they missed out on a whale of a human document...