Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rewrote his book four times. When U.S. and British publishers continued to ignore his Union Now, he finally contracted to have the "doggone manuscript" printed at his own expense in France. In the midst of the 1938 Czech crisis, Clarence Streit's plan to save the world went into type...
...then that Harper & Bros, in New York and Jonathan Cape in London picked up earlier versions of the manuscript from Streit's agents, read them and decided that the reeling world might like to reflect on one man's suggestions for salvation. In New York and London, Union Now appeared in the bookstores and Streit's idea was launched. A modest 13,-ooo books were sold in the U.S. It was all the encouragement that Streit needed. The idealist was reborn...
Final decision on these positions will be made on May 3, Spivak announced. Deadline for manuscripts of the poems and addresses and for chorister aspirants to declare their intentions is April 25. Poems and odes are to be handed in to Theodore Morrison '23, director of English A, at Warren House; the addresses, to Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, on the top floor of the Germanic Museum. A skeleton manuscript of five to seven minutes' duration should be submitted...
When he had finished, Acheson abruptly tossed his manuscript on the table with an air of relief. Nobody pushed him further. But next day his good friend, the Washington Post, summed up the statement editorially: "There is nothing in it which persuades us to change our view of either the impropriety or the unwisdom of [his first statement]. In the public interest this wretched and subordinate incident should be closed...
Harry Byrd was not on the Senate floor when Freshman Humphrey first discharged his matchlock. But last week Byrd planted himself firmly behind his desk, flipped open a manuscript on the lectern before him and fixed the upstart with a cold, stern eye. After glancing through the Congressional Record, he began, he had found at least nine major misstatements in Humphrey's 2,000-word accusation. He would proceed forthwith to set the Senate straight on the facts...