Word: memoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan papers chose to ignore most of the story. But the New York Star added its bit of mystery. It told about a memo written by Cissie Patterson after a squabble with her cousin, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, over management of the family's New York Daily News. Shortly before Cissie's death, said the Star, she wrote Bertie a memo that she was going to change her will...
...Evangeline's words, "encouraged ... to look upon the Army as a dynasty which was to descend to his children; and more and more the Army all around the world sensed this, with all its tragic dangers." In 1927 she handed Bramwell a confidential memo urging that the Army's constitution be changed to allow the election of generals, instead of having them appointed by their predecessors. When Bramwell rejected this suggestion, she circulated the documents among the Army's Commissioners and Territorial Commanders. By 1928, 72-year-old General Bramwell Booth was so broken in health that...
...memo to the press" indicated that the Government was about to buy large quantities of lard for export. The memo had been put on a table with a pile of official releases, in the Department of Agriculture's Washington newsroom, one day last fall. But there was something phony about it: it had none of the usual headings or signatures. When newsmen questioned its authorship, the Department began investigating and finally traced it to a commodity trader named Ralph W. Moore, onetime lobbyist and crony of Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, who also likes to speculate in commodities...
Trader Moore frankly confessed that he had written the memo, but said that his purpose was merely to call attention to "inconsistencies in Government lard purchase policies." The Department's Commodity Exchange Authority thought differently. Last week it charged that the memo was a trick of Moore's to spread false reports and boost prices for his own profit. At the time the memo was issued, said CEA, Moore was "long" (i.e., betting that the price would go up) on 1,900,000 pounds of lard futures. In the preceding 21 months, added CEA, Moore had made...
...from his office went a memo: "Oscar Dystel, former editor of Coronet magazine, has been appointed managing editor of Collier's, vice [in place of] Joe Alex Morris, resigned . . ." When Joe Morris, who already had the bad news, saw the memo, he took a pencil, crossed out the word "resigned," and walked...