Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another communication gadget, announced last week in the U. S.: a recording device which transcribes verbal memoranda, conferences, speeches on lightweight plastic discs resembling cellophane. These records can be folded and mailed in ordinary envelopes; two records lasting ten minutes each will go anywhere in the U. S. for 3?. The transcribing machines are also equipped to reproduce. Makers: General Communication Products of Los Angeles...
...Administration (as the Administration has turned its back on the Chamber since 1934), the Chamber made a direct appeal to Congress for things that the New Deal won't give. It got no less than 300 Congressmen to come to its various dinners to hear a verbal barrage against That Man in the White House and all his works...
...Ickes, who is as tough as anyone in handing out verbal socks, though a little tender on the receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous...
...jawed Charles G. Guth became a vice president of Loft, Inc. in 1929, immediately began gunning for control of the $13,000,000 candy-&-restaurant chain. At the 1930 stockholders' meeting, a police cordon was needed to keep the scrap verbal. That year Charles Guth collected enough proxies to make himself president. In 1935, embattled President Guth resigned. Instead of ending, the Guth-Loft squabble thereupon entered a new and noisier phase...
Sophomore Bruce Pirnie holds down the bow and his fighting spirit, expressed sometimes in verbal terms, adds atmosphere to the usually quiet end of the boat...