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...These memoranda will discuss the basic issues at question in the cases, the probable arguments by each side, and the significance of the possible decisions...
...made one bad slip on the January day he fled Venezuela one jump ahead of the howling mobs. He forgot to take along a suitcase he had packed for the getaway. Beneath the socks, shirts and underwear were bundles of papers-stock certificates, bank-deposit slips, property deeds, and memoranda of commissions squeezed over the years from companies doing business with his government...
Burke justifies the continued subsidy of the Calendar by pointing out that it provides a needed service to the University. It supposedly gives each Administrative department guaranteed access to students' rooms with all official notices and memoranda--a list of employment opportunities, for example. This, however, is a task for the University itself to tackle; there is no reason for a nominally independent student business organization to pay for a service which the University Printing Office could offer. Individual students pay the cost in higher HSA prices while student publications suffer from a needless loss of advertising revenue...
...have no objections to the way in which the author approaches his job. The scholarship of the work is impeccable; the text is a carefully woven fabric of diplomatic cables, memoranda, personal memoirs and previous historical writings. Ullman's selected bibliography includes well over a hundred titles, not to mention manuscripts, papers and unpublished documents. The chapters follow a careful chronological pattern. The only difficulty with the book is that the reader occasionally loses the main thread of events amidst a welter of seemingly unconnected incidents. He feels as if he were viewing a kaleidoscope--at one moment...
...always been open to fellow members with problems, and he has been, through all his years in the House, among the most accessible of leaders. In the evenings, with his wife in their hotel suite, McCormack snips dozens of useful items from the newspapers and furiously pens helpful memoranda in an often undecipherable scribble, then dispatches them to his colleagues the next day. One of McCormack's first acts after Sam Rayburn's death was to offer to help get Rayburn's staff new jobs. For years, Congressmen of both parties, eager to deliver speeches but frustrated...