Word: informality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different treatment from their bosses. Little Eugeni played the Duce: "Qui comando io!" (Here, I command!) were his favorite words as he pounded a wobbly table. When he decided to dismiss lower officials like the village doctor, he wrote simply: "Dear Dr. Pirro, I have the honor to inform you you have been fired, (signed) Eugeni." He also fined Village Priest Don Vittorio for collecting money for the harvest festival without his authorization...
Last week Member David Jackman charged that the convention had become a "Doodlebug of Confusion." He promptly added to the confusion himself. With one eye on the hundreds of millions the U.S. had spent on bases in Newfoundland, he proposed that a third delegation be sent to Washington to "inform the . . . U.S. of the convention's wish to learn the [U.S.] Government's attitude on federal union of Newfoundland with...
...should enter the picture in a limited capacity. Anti-trust laws must be used to ensure real competition. The present libel laws must be made more effective in protecting persons injured by false statements. Going further, the government should employ mass communications media of its own where necessary to inform the people at home and in foreign countries of its policies and purposes...
...press techniques (radio, etc.) itself to inform the U.S. public-and the world-about its policies and purposes, when private agencies are "unable or unwilling" to do it for the Government...
Says Patrick: "We had to get away from the travel-guide idea. We wanted an adult magazine that would tell people more about the world so they could act intelligently when and if they set out to see it. We wanted a book that would inform them in a big, broad way." They had to ditch most of the excursion articles their predecessors had laid away, and convince authors that they didn't have to puff the places they wrote about...