Word: photostatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Nunan was boss of the BIR. Ex-BIR officials are forbidden by law to act in such cases, he said, but "it appears that this section of the law has not been strictly enforced." Nunan got around it through a waiver from the Treasury Department; Williams produced a photostat copy...
...Maurice Tobin, McCarthy had magnanimous indulgence: "A fine young gentleman* who was ordered to do a job, and he did that job." Then, diving frequently into his brown bag for a black photostat, a picture, or a wad of congressional transcript, he turned his buckshot on his archenemies, Secretary of State Acheson, Defense Secretary Marshall, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup. He set the veterans whooping when he offered to take his case against Acheson and Jessup "to a jury of twelve men and twelve women . . . if the President's spokesmen can find a way to get them...
...famous name for causes that have nothing to do with literature. Two years ago Mann hailed the Reds' big "Peace Congress" in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria as a "ray of hope." He denied signing the Stockholm Peace Appeal, though the New York Daily Worker had carried a photostat of what seemed to be his signature on the petition; Mann claimed the signature was forged...
Methodically, relentlessly, Murphy rumbled on. He read the photostat of a letter written by Hiss. It showed that Hiss had been on intimate terms with Noel Field, once a State Department colleague and also accused of complicity in the Soviet spy ring. Field had vanished behind the Iron Curtain...