Word: memoranda
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...embargo would go on this week unless Canada, 1,750 cars above its quota, got into line. "We need those cars," said he, "and, damn it we're going to get 'em." That carried the teapot tempest right into the Dominion Cabinet. It dug through piles of memoranda, stacks of statistics, sadly concluded that Canada's railroaders had failed to keep their word mainly because they could not bring themselves to return the cars empty. Get going, said the Cabinet and hang the expense...
Most of the attendant scholars were already familiar with some of the 18,350 pieces of personal and official mail, manuscript and memoranda. Much of the material has been referred to and quoted in the works of Lincoln's two secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Later it became the source material of innumerable books by other authors. But it would be a rich mine of Lincolniana. Few collections have led so closely guarded an existence...
...didn't it kick out the Communists on its own payroll? One of the members read off a list of Department employees who were under direct FBI suspicion, but who had not yet been fired. They brought up the name of a secretary with access to confidential memoranda, who had been hobnobbing with local Reds and the Soviet Embassy staff for months. State's only action, they said, had been to call in the secretary, ask her if she was a Communist and accept her denial...
...tenth anniversary of the Advocate was celebrated with a wild "decennial feast," as prior to its birth a series of five magazines had had a combined life of but sixteen years. Present were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Professors James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton. Advocate memoranda of the time record that "representatives of the Crimson and of the new-born Lampoon were allowed to share in the feast of reason and the flow of the soul." The only "distressing" aspect of the affair was that it ruined the paper financially...
Hoare's book is in spots awkwardly written and, indeed, reads more like a diplomat's memoranda than a historian's account. The occasional unhappy phrasing and general lack of literary polish, however, is not conspicuous in a work such as this, and should not annoy students of modern Spain, for whom it should be required reading...