Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Individual reports, and with each report a memorandum explaining how scores are to be interpreted, will be in the mall in a few days, said Dean Dyer, The memorandum confirms a previously-published report that the Harvard group attained score averages placing it between the 75th and 80th percentiles...
...unrecognized Argentine Minister in Washington, Rodolfo Garcia Arias, called at the Chilean Chancellory. The sleepy mayordomo let him in, telephoned Ambassador Marcial Mora at his home. The Ambassador was shaving, but he hurried downtown without breakfast, to receive with reluctant hands a diplomatic hot potato: a memorandum from the Argentine Government for delivery to the Government of the U.S. It announced that Argentina had asked the Pan American Union to call a full-dress conference of Foreign Ministers to consider the Argentine case...
...memorandum contained one hint and one joker. The hint: "The present state of things [said the Argentines] creates divisions that are incompatible with the traditional spirit of brotherhood existing among nations bound by proximity, origin and ideals." The U.S. is not near Argentina, does not share, to the Argentine nationalist mind, the same "origin and ideals." Perhaps some Argentines hoped to split the Hemisphere into Latins v. Anglo-Saxons, shove the U.S. toward the doghouse...
Nevertheless, the memorandum was a bombshell. The U.S. State Department dove nimbly into its foxhole, disclaiming formal knowledge of the Argentine request. This was formally true, for Ambassador Mora was consulting his Government before delivering the memorandum...
...draft dodger in the last war, convicted again as a perjurer and pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt in time to organize the campaign for his fourth term." Then Tom Dewey explained why, in his view, the Communists are supporting Mr. Roosevelt. He dug up a quotation from a memorandum written by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939: "Over a period of years the Government will gradually come to own most of the productive plants in the United States...