Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even get the manuscript into my hands for a moment to give you an exact estimate of its length, so anxiously is our leader guarding...
Nazi leaders were summoned to learn the substance of the speech but not even they were allowed to touch the manuscript. Complained one to reporters...
...entire diplomatic corps was there; deputies and Nazi officials jammed the aisles. Prominent in the distinguished visitors' gallery was Former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, in uniform. In his brown shirt, Adolf Hitler soberly mounted the rostrum and began to read his speech, seldom lifting his eyes from his manuscript, indulging in none of his usual oratorical flourishes. Excerpts...
outer office. He said he had come about Mr. Morgan's manuscript of Vol. I of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, mysteriously stolen from a loan exhibition last autumn at Columbia University (TIME, Dec. 5). He was whisked in at once to Mr. Morgan. For five months world police had been watching pawnshops and "fences" for the MS. The man said quietly, "Would you be interested in getting back Guy Mannering on a basis of no questions asked, no money paid?'' Mr. Morgan said, "Yes." The man left and soon a messenger brought the manuscript...
Economy Publishers of Tacoma, Wash. received and read the manuscript "with ever increasing pleasure and admiration for the author. My! how your characters live and breathe and walk out into the room before one ... !" The concern agreed to publish the book for $375, returning 40% of all royalties to Lottie Perkins...