Word: photostatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slivovitz with Photostat. Rajk testified that in 1931, when he was 22, he had signed a paper enlisting in Horthy's secret police, then run by Dr. Peter Hetenyi. Thereafter, as he rose in the Communist Party which he was supposed to destroy, this paper dogged him. Apparently everybody except the Communists had a copy of it. According to Rajk, the French Deuxieme Bureau, the Gestapo and U.S. Intelligence all used the paper to blackmail Rajk into serving them...
...slivovitz, and then Rankovich told Rajk that Tito planned to overthrow Hungary's Communist-dominated government because it was loyal to> Stalin. Rankovich asked Rajk's help. To make it clear that a refusal would be inadvisable, Rankovich drew a paper from his pocket; it was a photostat of the paper Rajk had signed...
...Hiss ever got the car back from "Crosley"? He could not remember if "Crosley" had kept it or if it "came back" to him. Hiss agreed that the signature on the photostat of the transfer looked like his, but he still had no memory of the transaction...
Where Are They Now? From a photostat of the only copy of the first issue (in London's Public Record Office) Editor Monaghan carefully copies the writing style (including its heavy use of italics for emphasis) and does his best to get the printers to imitate typography. The first four-page number had its share of antiquarian whimsy (the Publisher regrets "his Inability to satisfy the Complaints of several of the original Subscribers . . . who say that they have not yet received their Copies. . . . The previous Editor . . . did not leave us a complete list of Subscribers"). But Monaghan was more...
...preface to the new 141-page psalter is a letter from Chiang to his great & good friend, Translator Wu, with a photostat of one of the Generalissimo's own editorial emendations brushed on the manuscript's wide margin. Says the letter...