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...forced vacations, veiled threats. Then he genially invited Steed to accompany him on a trip to the U.S. where they both met President Harding and traveled as if there never had been any friction (see cut). When they returned, Northcliffe sent what the staff called a "stink bomb"-a memo charging Steed and his assistants with sins of incompetence and mismanagement...
...when Lattimore's term as Pacific Affairs editor was ending. A letter from the I.P.R. file persuaded him to change his mind. He must have known Field's ideology as early as 1939. "My memory was in error by about two years," he admitted. One I.P.R. memo, from Field to Lattimore, read like an order: discussing a certain article, it cautioned Editor Lattimore that "the analysis is a straight Marxist one and . . . should not be altered...
Britain's Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd George looked into the nation's larder, and finding it all but bare, decided that Britons would get no extra food rations for Christmas this year. He sent his boss Winston Churchill a detailed memo explaining why. Churchill bowed to the decision, initialed the memo and sent it back -with an added notation: "Scrooge...
...Every now & then, says the ex-chairman, there were around the RFC "meddlers wanting to muscle in for a little private smoosh." More often than not, the approach was made through the White House. One day in 1941, after a visit from Alfred E. Smith, President Roosevelt sent a memo to Jones. He thought the RFC ought to buy the Empire State Building of which Smith was president. "We all know that the [building] is a losing proposition," wrote the President, "but. . . it is ideally located for a central Federal Office Building." After an investigation, Jones reported that the price...
...happier substitutes, the memo suggested: "Use instead 'stabilization,' 'price program' . . . 'efforts to hold prices down,' 'efforts to hold the line.' " At the same time, Di Salle's publicity men did not want anybody to get the notion that the line could be held because of the recent "lull" in prices. They advised: "Integrate the 'lull' into the continuing fight against inflation." Since Government spending contributes to inflation, OPS copy should avoid "reference to 'defense spending.' Use instead 'defense production' . . . with emphasis on 'production...