Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are also bits of such as the following, from a letter written by Mr. Hoover to a friend to "answer some of the solemn discourses on my private life and crimes...
...malicious busybody informed the immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada. Quebec offered him nothing but the position of dishwasher at the famed Chateau Frontenac. Here a wartime subordinate arriving on the cruiser Australia discovered him, exposed his situation in a letter to the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. The determined, zestful officer is now forcibly in the limelight, receiving belated offers of worthy employment. Mrs. Gough and two children have lived in Nova Scotia while General Gough tried gallantly to provide...
...Manhattan offices of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, Delegate Pancake conferred with fellow delegates, viewed with alarm a proposed change in cable rates. Up for discussion at Brussels will be the "Cortina report," recommending that code words be limited to five letters instead of ten, the cost of sending a 5-letter word to be 68% of the present 10-letter rate. Thus Mr. Pancake's hypothetical cable would read
Instead of costing 40? (20? a 10-letter word), it would cost 52? (13? a 5-letter word), besides the cost of address and signature...
...Pancake's supposititious cable was written in the code of the Commercial Cable Co. (I. T. & T. subsidiary). This code consists of 5-letter words, which can be joined in pairs to enjoy the 10-letter rate. But it could be deciphered by anyone with a code catalog. If Mr. Pancake had wished to be cunning and sly, he might have agreed in advance to use the catalog in this way: Instead of sending the word OCDIV ("Have received no letter from you since . . ."), he might have chosen the fifth word following, OCEHE, and so on throughout the message...