Word: memoranda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire Faculty to take formal action on the resolution. To facilitate discussion, the Committee will present to the Faculty three memoranda offering "clear information on certain points and expert opinion on others." Originally prepared for CEP members, the memoranda deal with the provisions of section 1001 (f), its legislative history, its constitutionality, and possible legal action by the University...
...Some time this month the President plans to make a speech defending his defense budget and answering Democratic charges that his program will lead to a dangerous missile gap in the 19603. At the President's order, the Pentagon has worked up more statistics and memoranda on U.S. v. Soviet firepower. Ike reads the reports and roughs out his counterattack in the evenings; by day, Presidential Speechwriter Malcolm Moos and other White House aides work his notes into speech form...
...decision was his own. It was the result of several listless weeks in Washington, weeks which Stevenson spent preparing memoranda and submitting them to departments actually uninterested in what he had to say. Official Washington's tone was set by Sherman Adams's incredible remark that Adlai Stevenson was brought to the capital not because of his intelligence, but because the people seemed to want it. He was window-dressing...
...respected advocate of a worldwide hard anti-Communist line. "The situation in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS) is serious," said he at Washington National Airport. "In fact, I would say extremely serious. It might deeply affect the security of the whole free world." He handed a dozen pages of memoranda to a senior State Department official, headed downtown for long hours of talks with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...paper, e.g., a policy for guided missiles, was lost in the backlog. On his first day, Radford got the new team of Chiefs to work in his own office, without staffs, without secretaries, shirtsleeves rolled up; with pencils and paper that they had brought along, they began writing out memoranda on post-Korean force levels and budget needs...