Word: typist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung: "Secretary-interpreter, perfect Russian, English, expert stenographer-typist, at present employed in Vilna, looking for other employment, preferably inside Germany...
Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who pores over and polishes one draft after another, Churchill, often chisels the splendid phrase as he speaks. In preparation, Churchill dictates ideas directly to a typist (who uses a machine with very large type). These notes frame what he intends to say, but they are no more than a frame. Once on his feet he improvises, digresses, shapes his points as he rolls along...
...President and a secretary-typist knew what the letter contained. Before the week was out Nazi propagandists would say that Messenger Davies had brought a proposal for the history-making dissolution of the Comintern (see col. 2). Other speculation: the letter had to do with: 1) a meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek (before the U.S. Congress Winston Churchill "earnestly" hoped for such a meeting); or 2) Soviet Union war and postwar aims, still an unknown factor; or 3) Russo-Vatican relations; or 4) Russo-Polish differences; or 5) all four...
...mining business through the front tunnel. Her father was a doctor who preferred mining to medicine, died leaving $23,000 debts and some dubious mining claims. So Dot went to work, first in a Seattle department store, then in San Francisco, then in Washington as a $30-a-week typist for the old NRA. In her spare time in the capitol she pawed through old mining records, finally traced her father's claims. That got her started. In no time at all she located most of his mines, ousted claim-jumpers, sold one mine to Baltimore's Rustless...
...troops in Northern Ireland pored fondly over thousands of pictures of girls back home, studied and studied, finally chose as "Sweetheart of the A.E.F," Janet Barry, 18-year-old typist of Belmar, N.J., because...