Word: memos
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...said that can be written down on a blackboard, and few things are written down that can be expressed in a picture. Coke sales promotion men put out a slide film on any subject under Coca-Cola's sun (the way lesser men might toss off a memo). Often, a message is too important even for the screen and live drama is used: any good Coke sales promotion man is ready, like a veteran stock actor, to jump into any number of roles at the drop of a bottle...
...Soviet Union in the forefront of internationally advancing people's power," and stuck dangerously to outmoded notions of a popular front with bourgeois elements. "The time has come, comrades," exhorted Shiga, "to bend our utmost efforts toward the bolshevization of the party." When Nozaka and Tokuda squelched the memo in which Shiga set forth his views, Shiga let it leak out to the rank & file...
Akahata, Tokyo's Communist newspaper, denounced the circulation of Shiga's memo as "subversive." At first Shiga declined to make a public retort. "Intraparty affairs," he said, "should be solved within the party." Last week Akahata repeated and amplified its reprimand; it also printed a terse apology from No. 3. Then, within their central committee, the comrades rehashed the issue in hot & heavy argument. The solution: a statement reproving Shiga but leaving him still in his influential post. Japan's lesser comrades looked on, baffled and bewildered by the complex top-level schism...
...California. His Los Angeles audiences were no more than moderately large until his activities suddenly attracted the attention of William Randolph Hearst. At a meeting one evening, says Graham, he noticed "reporters and cameramen crawling all over the place. One of them told me they had had a memo from Mr. Hearst which said Tuff Graham,' and the two Hearst papers gave me great publicity. The others soon followed...
...Buzzer. When Charles Sawyer took over, he quickly earned the nickname "Buzz" by keeping his aides hopping to answer his buzzer. He sent out a memo: "There will be no smoking in the Secretary's office or at conferences with the Secretary." That was distressing news to Commerce's economists, who love their ancient, richly caked pipes. It also set the tone for his administration: cordiality but no intimacy. Charles Sawyer lost no time in getting into affairs on a level above the merely administrative...