Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nanking Administration Building, where Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues used to hold state meetings, Puppet Wang sat alone at a long table. In walked General Abe, followed by 22 junior officers. Wang stood up. The General sat down. Wang sat down. The General indicated a document lying on the table. Wang signed it. General Abe signed it. Japan was at "peace" with China...
...bodily resurrection, ends his Bible: "There laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." But he believed in his own version. He wrote of it: "A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus...
...Embassy. Suddenly he resigned, became a man with a message. Steaming back across the Atlantic aboard the refugee ship Excalibur, he prepared a four-page, handwritten document for his adopted country. Last week he presented it to newsmen in Manhattan. It was an enlightening commentary on the beliefs and translating ability of an aide in the U. S. Embassy. Excerpts: ^ "European democracies have outlived themselves because true democratic principles have vanished." ^ "There is no chance for the morale of Germany being shaken. . . . Germans are not disappointed with the delay of the invasion of England, knowing that Germany will unexpectedly defeat...
Bright particular star of that demagogy-by-document which Roosevelt I called muckraking was Ida Minerva Tarbell. She had been brought up in the Pennsylvania oil fields when the fight between Standard Oil and the independents was hottest. Her father and brother were oil men whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment...
With their foreign market already lost, the movies are getting pretty reckless. They say "Nazi" and "Fascist" and "Ribbentrop" as easily as if they were the names of cocktails. In line with this spirit of adventure, Hollywood showed up last week with a document, a drama, a comedy, none of which pulls its punches when it mentions the new order in Europe, all of which are better for their courage...