Word: memo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lauch Currie probably comes nearer to having a passion for anonymity than any other New Deal adviser. First evidence of Currie's growing technical weight in Washington came in the spring of 1938, when he wrote an influential memo on the Causes of the Recession. Its prime theses, now commonplace: 1) U. S. Social Security taxes took so much out of the public pocketbook that the Government's net contribution was reduced during the crucial March-September period in 1937 to a monthly average of $60,000,000 from $335,000,000 during 1936. 2) "Compensatory" Federal spending...
...Emmet Sherwood and his partners in Playwrights Producing Co. Inc. filed the suit on the ground that there was more than coincidence in the similarity in name to Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Broadway hit to be filmed this summer with Raymond Massey). Darryl Zanuck parried that by producing a memo proving that Lincoln was in his thoughts as far back...
Most anonymous of Berle's recent coups was the President's last-minute appeal to Hitler during the Munich Crisis, which he coauthored. Most conspicuous coup was a "confidential" memo, which he issued two months before on the Monopoly Investigation (he called the village grocer as much of a monopolist as any trust). One motive behind the Monopoly memorandum was Berle Jr.'s private feud with competitive White House counsellor, hearty, pragmatic Tom Corcoran, who did not plan the Monopoly Investigation as just another outlet for Berle's talents...
Franklin Roosevelt's business appeasement policy is only nine months old but already it is a retarded infant. It was allegedly born in a confidential memo of Adolf Augustus Berle whose present job as Assistant Secretary of State does not prevent him from braintrusting all over the lot. It soon fell out of the arms of its nurse, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, who in his oversold Des Moines speech last February failed to give it anything but words to teethe on. Last week those who should have loved the baby most dearly, shoved it in the face...
...Private and confidential memo to editor. We are asked by the Admiralty to issue the following 'D' notice: In the national interests the speech of Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Ark Royal tonight should not be published...