Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't a picnic at Walden Pond, though, but a tour of Cambridge and Boston bookstores. The 52 enrollees in a six-week intensive course in shorthand and typewriting begin taking dictation today from Mrs. Harold Quinlan of the Boston Catherine Gibbs secretarial school...
...successor to veteran Editor Percy Cole, another onetime newsman, Tom O'Donoghue will boss a staff of 18 crack (180 words per min. or better) shorthand reporters. They work in pairs-15 minutes at a stretch-in the curtained press gallery above the Speaker's chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying...
...year later young Mr. Rosenberg was a specialist-and making $50 a week after school. By determined practice, he had become a crack stenographer. About the time Billy won the Manhattan school speed championship, John R. Gregg, whose shorthand system Billy used, gave him a job as a demonstrator. Soon Rose could take 280 words a minute, real champ form. When he quit high school in his third year, he was making as much as $200 a week from his shorthand...
...experienced young journalist named George Trevor Wykeham Gauntlett, a half-English, half-Japanese native of Japan, descended from the Earls of Wykeham and from the "First Samurai" of the Nagoya area. His father, the son of a canon of the Church of England, introduced the pipe organ and shorthand into Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention and the Washington disarmament talks. They were interned at Karuizawa...
Lilienthal had many enemies. They were opposed to him not so much for what he was-a brilliant, impatient, zealous administrator-as for what he represented. He represented the New Deal, which was their shorthand way of saying: hostility to the successful businessman, government ownership of utilities, too much government in general...