Word: informative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office Department last year he announced in his quiet way that he was going to show the nation how its "largest single business" should be run. Last July the Postmaster General radioed to President Roosevelt aboard the Houston a triumphant vindication of his boast: "I have the honor to inform you that pre-audited figures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1934, show, after making the usual adjustments authorized by law for certain subventions and free mailing services, that our postal receipts exceeded expenditures for the first time since 1919, the surplus being approximately...
Newspapers rushed once more for their headline type when, with his figures audited, the Postmaster General made a final report for fiscal 1934 to the President. Wrote he: "I am more than gratified to be able to inform you that these [figures]show a surplus of $12,161,415.03, after making the adjustments authorized by the act of June 9, 1930, for certain subventions and free mailing services...
When Giulio Gatti-Casazza returns to Manhattan from his summers in Italy, the long-established routine has been for him to summon musical reporters and inform them of the singers he has engaged, the operas he intends to produce the coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has always been the same: Gatti settling his great bulk in a swivel chair, fumbling for the ribbon which holds his pince-nez, reading his announcement aloud in slow, painstaking English. When questions were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly...
From the law office of McAdoo & Neblett, Colonel William Haynie Neblett hastened to inform the Press: "All she has is a monthly allowance given her by her father. This and all future aid will be denied her if she goes ahead with her wild plan to marry a man whom her father has never seen." From a call on Mrs. McAdoo, who divorced the Senator last summer (TIME, July 30). Colonel Neblett emerged with the news that Ellen had "disappeared," that her mother was "prostrate in bed." Said he : "I don't know where she is but it seems...
...entitled to equal consideration in America. How long can it be expected merely to wonder? Question such as these, and many others, must be met squarely by the administration if another period of violence such as that pertaining throughout the country last summer is to be avoided. Merely to inform labor in grandiose manner that communism is incompatible with American traditions, and that under fascism it will be regimented by the state to a point where it will have no liberty of thought or action is insufficient unless there is a substantial improvement during the coming winter. Unless unemployment...