Word: memoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, it ordered all hands to learn to say it simply or get out. And it plans to have Dr. Flesch read copy on its stories for a year. Last week, the A.P. professed to see an improvement, but was still finding plain English hard to write. In a memo to the staff, Assistant General Manager Alan Gould wrote: "Too frequently it seems that we contrive the hardest way to say some of the simplest things...
...week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...
...Army contract officers protested the high cost of the plane, the unusual terms of the contract. They were overruled. The Budget Bureau recommended that the flying-boat contract be terminated, the F11 production transferred to someone else. The recommendation was ignored. Snorted one disgruntled colonel (according to a 1944 memo): "let Hughes "hang himself...
...track. It cooked up a ludicrous counter-propaganda scheme. The Commies could hardly come out and say they were against the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Nor could they attack such backers of the train as Phil Murray, Bill Green or the Girl Scouts. So, in a memo from the party's educational headquarters, district leaders were instructed to tell whoever would listen that the "key backers" of the Freedom Train are "reactionary big businessmen" with a "demagogic purpose." Leaders were told to organize tours through the train only under "prominent progressives...
...advertising director. Some of her issues look as cluttered as the inside of a stenographer's purse, but the stenographers seem to like it that way. The contents run to bootstrap success stories, needlepoint notes, advice on hairdos and boy friends, with a confidential editor's memo printed in Miss Oliver's own Gregg shorthand...