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Probably the ablest religious editor of any U. S. newspaper is Rachel Kollock McDowell of the New York Times. A plump, energetic spinster in her 50's, Miss McDowell loves her work. She regularly has 25 reporters assigned to cover Sunday sermons, bombards the city desk with memoranda urging additional coverage of religious events. Armed with a capacious handbag she personally reports important gatherings like the Presbyterian General Assembly-dear to her heart because she is devoutly of that faith. Indomitable Miss McDowell hates swearing, sends out a memorandum every New Year's Eve reminding the staff...
...famed, sharp-eyed founder of the Oxford Groups ("Buchmanites") practically admits in his speeches, the guidance of God often comes to him in the form of choppy, telegraphic memoranda. In Oslo last March Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman declared: "Before I landed in Norway it came constantly in my Quiet Times...
Hastily organized was the Committee of Public Utility Executives with headquarters at Washington's Mayflower Hotel. Representing most of the U. S. power business, the Committee issued memoranda and analyses of the proposed legislation, prepared statements, encouraged protest. The American Federation of Utility Investors, which through chain letters has collected nearly 1,000,000 signatures to a petition against Government power projects, opened fire on the latest threat to the interests which it frankly represents...
...although an outsider does not have the advantage of holding a numbered slip. Instead of settling individual transactions, each broker records his trades as he would on the Floor, turning over to a volunteer "clearing agent" for "settlement" at the end of the game his "bought" and "sold" memoranda. The game goes on until trading peters out or the real stockmarket stirs in its sleep. Losses have run as high as $200 in a single game but the average gain or loss is between $10 and $20 per "session." Lately the Stock Exchange Governors banished the game to the smoking...
...Guard cutters chased the rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend the act's legality...