Word: mimeographed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower's 146th veto message whirred through the White House Mimeograph machine one morning last week before Congress had even sent him the bill to be rejected: the $1.2 billion rivers and harbors appropriation, almost exactly the same old vote-catching "pork barrel" smashed by the 144th veto two weeks earlier. This time, Ike knew, Democrats were dead certain that they could muster the necessary two-thirds to override-and end-the remarkable string of unbeaten Eisenhower vetoes...
Taking turns at the Mimeograph machine, they ground out letters to pupils all over the country. "The Negroes of the U.S.A.," they said, "helped liberate us. Write in Dutch (but without politics) in your own words and ask President Eisenhower to set these boys free." They called it Operation Snowball, Rotterdam...
...Communist officials turned up at the monastery and started ransacking it. When a female clerk tried to phone her superiors, a buxom Anna Pauker type snatched the phone out of her hands and tore it from the wall. The Communists did not stop to examine their loot: papers and mimeograph machines were dumped helter-skelter into sacks. Soon an angry crowd of pilgrims formed outside the building, and one official nervously summoned the police. Police arrived armed with gas masks and swinging truncheons...
...tide of indignation rose, the government hurried into a huddle with church officials to see if it could patch things up. They reached a compromise on distribution of the present stockpile of welfare packages to flood victims in southern Poland, and the church agreed to keep printing presses and mimeograph machines out of its holy places...
...assign the armed forces publicity personnel to commanding men (if and when qualified) instead of commanding typewriters and mimeograph machines. The "old" Army fought and won two pretty good wars without having generals of publicity telling the enemy and the American people what they were going...