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...York Times's Arthur Krock laid alarmed hands on a little typewritten document by Stuart Chase. It was called Preliminary Suggestions for Standardizing Terminology, or First Aid to the Layman. Mr. Chase had prepared it for SEC's Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee. Its purpose was to prime Government examiners to use "good" words, avoid "bad" ones-the better to propagandize the New Deal. Excerpts...
...white fifth ward, became the most sensemaking of the 50 members of Chicago's City Council. Last week Professor-Alderman Douglas, having encountered one of the things that make a politician's life hard, devised his own way of facing it To his constituents he issued a typewritten appeal...
Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...
...count, and preceded by four masters of ceremonies, with tall Queen Elena and accredited diplomats looking on from balcony boxes, His tiny Majesty ascended three steps to the dais and sat on his throne. The 682 new Councilors then took their oaths collectively, after which His Majesty, producing typewritten sheets of paper from the pocket of his military tunic, read a restrained, conciliatory speech probably written for him by Il Duce. If there were fiery words to be spoken, Dictator Mussolini was reserving them for his own speech later in the week (see below...
Suddenly he stopped and hurriedly counted the typewritten pages in his hand. Shamefacedly he said that the most important page of his statement was missing. Two blushing secretaries bolted from the officials' gallery above the speaker, and in a few moments the Prime Minister himself followed. Parliament waited and waited, finally got to debating something else. Not until 45 minutes had passed did Prime Minister King breathlessly return to the House to read the strongest war statement any Canadian Prime Minister had made since the World...