Word: mimeograph
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...such organization hopeful of success must be backed by force. Here is nothing new. There is no doubt today that a League of Nations with "horsepower" would enforce the peace its founders dreamed of, but nationalism can hardly be overthrown by professors with a constitution, an office, and a mimeograph...
...Hearing that the rebellious pastors of the German Evangelical [Lutheran] Church plan to print and circulate privately their unanswered protest to the Reichsführer against practically everything going on in Nazi Germany (TIME, July 27), the Gestapo (secret police) raided Confessional Synod offices, lugged off typewriters, mimeograph and printing machines...
...fact that no solvent publisher ran a magazine exclusively for "the best short stories." Bearded Whit Burnett and his pleasant, bespectacled wife, Martha Foley, were correspondents for the New York Sun in Vienna when they ran off 75 copies of Story's first issue on a rented mimeograph machine. The contents were by themselves and friends, including Kay Boyle and Oliver Gossman. This smudged, amateur attempt set off a literary explosion, is now worth $500 per copy as a curiosity. When they lost their jobs in Vienna, the Burnetts took their magazine to the Mediterranean island of Majorca...
...career in the Midwest. At that time his problem was to get editors to print his column for nothing, so he might collect an occasional meal or the price of room rent from some restaurant or hotel whose name he had insinuated into print. His wife patiently worked the mimeograph machine, licked the stamps, kept what records there were. The other point is that his wife for years has been his business manager, arranging and dictating the terms of all his contracts. Childless, deeply fond of his Boston Bull and Sealyham, he has simplified his life so that his daily...
...Washington lobbyist is worth his mimeograph machine unless he is a master at the game of political trading. No Washington lobby is more numerous or active than that of the American Federation of Labor, with its fine marble headquarters overlooking a tiny public park adorned with a statue of the late great Samuel Gompers. But the records show that the A. F. of L. has a poor score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation...