Word: informality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldsmith, 83 (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 29) was permanently enjoined last week by the New York State Supreme Court from selling any more stock-market letters. The court ruled that as Goldsmith got his tips from the comic strips and departed spirits (instead of "recognized sources") and did not inform his clients of his sources, his letters were worthless...
...work he created was a vast chronicle of the seizure of the land from the Indians by the French, the defeat of their "effete and cumbrous feudalism" by the English. In the final pages he discussed the defeat of England in turn by the colonies. His purpose was to inform the people of the struggles that had been necessary to win the continent for them, to warn them against the practices that had lost it for their predecessors...
Churchill, in spite of honest differences with Ike, always backed him up. During the campaign in France, says Ike, "Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Brooke took occasion to inform me that they also were prepared, at any moment I expressed dissatisfaction with any of my principal British subordinates, to replace him instantly." This unity of command, says Eisenhower, was one of the great achievements...
Valpey, however, stated that until the medicos inform him O'Donnell is in perfect health his game plans do not include...
...Switzerland, with small-circulation papers and not much big news, said Crossman, "Gresham's law of journalism does not operate. Hot news in Switzerland does not drive out cold information . . . The Swiss press's . . . major purpose is to inform, not to increase circulation ... Thus it has avoided both the French disease of political corruption and the Anglo-Saxon disease of sensationalism...