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Word: boalsburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door was open to him at any hour with despatches from Chief Delegate Stimson at St. James's palace. Downstairs in the cable room were expert telegraphers. Code clerks filled the code room from which all snoopers were shooed away. Tall, curly-haired Pierre De Lagorde Boal of Boalsburg, Pa., chief of the department's conference secretariat, sat in his office like a traffic officer directing the two-way flow of messages. In the office labeled "Division of Current Information" waited Robert McGregor Scotten beside his well-oiled mimeograph, primed to reel out press releases from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cables, Codes, Mimeographs | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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