Word: memoranda
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...when war came. Under the Neutrality Act and various New Deal laws vesting power in the Chief Executive, the prospect was for more one-man government than the U. S. has yet seen when not at war itself. The job of all executive branches was to compile data and memoranda to guide Franklin Roosevelt should bombs and shells start flying in Czechoslovakia...
When he turned to the charges made by the majority against the chairman, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal also did all the talking, Chairman Morgan none. But highly documented though these were with magazine articles, letters, telegrams and interoffice memoranda which the President judicially accepted as "exhibits," they sounded less like the beginning of a Teapot Dome than like the charges in a divorce suit. Samples: that Chairman Morgan, in an Atlantic Monthly article on public power programs, had "impugned the integrity of the Tennessee Valley Authority," that he had consulted with a former private utility executive, onetime Vice President George...
...addition, there were blank order sheets and memoranda stolen from army officials, a list of buildings having several exits, an exact plan of the Paris sewers with passages leading to the Chamber, plans of the interiors of buildings occupied by Leftist newspapers and plans of the apartments of Socialist Deputies...
Edison did this for two years. General Manager Stringfellow kept the memoranda in a black loose-leaf notebook...
From 1907 to the present the Dramatic Club has collected memoranda of its plays, and it is now displaying the more interesting of these in an exhibition in the Theatrical Collection Room on the top floor of Widener Library...