Word: typescripts
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...could borrow a typewriter. Editor Page "gave him a desk and some copy paper and some cigarets. He went into a brief trance and then started typing at a furious rate. In about 45 minutes . . . he was done. . . and gave me ten or a dozen sheets of typescript. These I read quickly, finding to my surprise that he had done a remarkably good job. . . . By this time the office had closed and I invited him out for a quick drink, during which he discoursed most entertainingly on his life and letters. I left him feeling that...
Bedlam. Finally Professor van Zeeland called Emperor Haile Selassie, and the bird-like little Ethiopian advanced to the League tribune. As he picked up the 17-page typescript of his speech a nutter of applause stirred in the general gallery. For Italian journalists in the press gallery this was the last straw. Jangle-nerved after months of watching Italy badgered with Sanctions at Geneva, they jumped up, bellowed jeers and curses at the Emperor, screamed "Viva Il Duce...
...announced that a "congenial atmosphere" for counterproposals had vanished. Nevertheless that afternoon Ambassador Ribbentrop was handed 22 pages of German typescript. With his brother-in-law, Foreign Office Division Chief Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff, and 26 other experts, he led the huge German delegation by air to London. The German diplomatist was at the British Foreign Office at the unprecedented hour of 9:55 o'clock the next morning, two minutes before Captain Eden...
Speeches by His Majesty in which he takes a special interest, King Edward composes on his Underwood portable, using most of his fingers in striking the keys. He then hands this typescript to his advisers, who make suggestions by striking out or inserting between his double-spaced lines. Thus the word "radio" typed by His Majesty in composing his first broadcast was struck out and in was written "wireless." This suggestion His Majesty overruled and back the word went to "radio...