Word: importantally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back when the telephone was a relatively new contraption, people often regarded it as too ephemeral for important communications. Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett, two great statesmen who had been Wall Street partners, talked on the phone regularly when they were apart and then would exchange letters the same afternoon...
Harriman was one of those who believed in having important telephone conversations transcribed for his files. His personal papers describe a classic exchange with Robert Kennedy, who phoned after announcing on television that he was challenging President Johnson for the Democratic nomination. Kennedy: "I'm running for President." Harriman: "Next...
One solution would be to make it once again respectable -- perhaps even mandatory -- to tape important discussions and phone conversations for the historical record. The tapes would become the property of the National Archives and could be tightly sealed from all scrutiny for at least two decades, the way that...
Fax meets the needs of all sorts of users. Dime Savings Bank of New York uses them to verify signatures on checks and important documents. The Los Angeles Clippers basketball team sends game scores and players' statistics to newspapers by fax. Edward Scripps, chairman of the Scripps League Newspapers chain...
Dismay and anger were the reactions of American Jews last June when Pope John Paul II welcomed Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, despite accusations that the Austrian President had been involved in Nazi war crimes. The resulting controversy threatened to sour John Paul's nine-city trip to the U.S...