Word: mimeographed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...their trip they had three private cars so that they could rehearse all they wanted. In the baggage car two journalist members set up a mimeograph machine, got out a daily newspaper called The Touring Tattler. Object was to inspire the Amphions with rousing editorials, to entertain them with such local bits as "Any of you boys who are suffering from missing buttons, holely socks or ripped pants need only apply to [Basso] Judge Leonard for relief. He, so they say, has a most neat and tidy sewing...
...Died? Albert Blake Dick, 78, inventor of the mimeograph, chairman of the board of A. B. Dick Co.; of heart disease; in Lake Forest, Ill. He originated stencil printing, founded A. B. Dick Co., manufacturers of mimeographs and office equipment, 50 years...