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...before his departure for California President Hoover used its full text as the body of what he feared might be his own last Thanksgiving Day proclamation from the White House. Instead of casting about for current items for which to be thankful the President reissued the 143-year-old document because "this year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington, the Father of Our Country...
...Robert Hillyer has said that "Ulysses" itself may in the far future be a literary document of interest in Ph.D. theses; and probably "The Enemy of the Stars" will have much the same place. But unlike "Ulysses" is originality is almost its only virtue. Certainly it cannot be compared either for artistry or power to Mr. Lewis's other works...
England's Constitution, like its Common Law, is not a document but a body of precedents. It cannot be "violated" in the U. S. sense, but violation of a major precedent amounts to the same thing...
...them in the manner of U. S. announcers. When the Pope's encyclical on "Catholic Action" was to be released simultaneously in Paris and Vatican City, in case the Italian State should attempt to suppress it, it was Monsignor Spellman who forestalled any muzzling by flying with the document to Le Bourget (TIME, July 13, 1931). At the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin last June, Monsignor Spellman assisted the Papal Legate, Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, made himself helpful to U. S. newshawks, read into a microphone the English version of the Pope's blessing to the Congress...
Last week in Albany Governor Roosevelt was presented with a hard political nut, a 27,000-word document wherein slick little James John ("Jimmy") Walker hotly defended his right to remain Mayor of New York. Replying to the ouster charges filed last June by Counsel Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating Tammany corruption (TIME, June 13 et ante), Mayor Walker opened his defense with an attack. He charged that Republicans had instigated the inquiry "to divert public attention from the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the nation." He accused Mr. Seabury of "malice, slander, rancorous ill-will," of conducting...