Word: mimeographed
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Washington was hot enough to drive a man crazy. The nerves of Representative Frank Whelchel of Gainesville, Ga. were on edge. Just to make things worse, from the room below his office in the Old House Office Building came the incessant bump and whir of mimeograph machines. Mr. Whelchel had complained about the noise more than once. In his soft Georgia accent he had told Truman Ward, who has a concession to duplicate speeches for Democrats, that one day he would "smash the machines to pieces...
...your issue of March 24 regarding Istan-sued in mimeograph form the next day to the 55 officers and 645 men of the British cruiser Orion, informing them just what happened while they were at action stations and unable to see. The Orion is commanded by Captain Geoffrey Robert Bensly Back, who issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire...
...most outstanding features of the activities in connection with the conference is the miniature press-room officials are planning to set up. They are asking all college newspapers to send men to cover the conference, as well as delegates, and will supply them with typewriters, mimeograph machines, and even United Press and Associated Press wire service...
...Miller, RFC was henceforward an arrogant bureaucracy aligned with the big railroads and dead set against the little businessman. He began a long series of trips to Washington, letters to big and little RFC shots, visits and letters to Ohio Congressmen. He got out a mimeographed letter, Hickory News, whose main purpose was to give bureaucracy hell. In one issue he referred to RFC 'as "Railroad's Fat Cat" and to ICC (which he also dislikes) as "Iscariot's Carnal Cat's-paw." Every time RFC turned him down on a new application (total to date...
Five years ago the FTC cracked down on the Kidder Oil Co. of La Crosse, Wis., manufacturers of a graphite lubricant called Koatsal. According to the FTC charges (at once broadcast from its busy mimeograph machines) Koatsal did none of the things President Joseph K. Kidder claimed it would do when added to automobile crankcase oil. Ex-newspaper man Kidder had little money; his business was sick from the adverse publicity, and fighting the FTC charges looked like a long and expensive process. But he was sure the FTC was wrong. When it asked him to sign a stipulation admitting...