Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions, he was administrator of an Oriente cane plantation and likes to recall how he spurned his chances then to enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army as an infantry private. He was smart enough to study shorthand, which enabled him to win a competitive army examination and become a court stenographer with the rank of sergeant. Four years ago Sergeant Batista was scribbling obscurely at courts martial when Franklin Roosevelt sent his friend Benjamin Sumner Welles as Ambassador to see whether the ominous groundswell against ruthless President...
Raoul Dufy has never lost his enthusiasm for Matisse's brilliant color and uncanny sense of design, but unlike other Matisse disciples he did not imitate any part of his technique. Raoul Dufy, and later his Brother Jean, worked out a sort of shorthand of painting with rapidly sketched trees and houses blocked in colors deliberately off-register. This genre has been seized avidly by smartchart editors and advertisers. Museums know his work: even the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a Dufy...
Died. Irving Thalberg, 37, production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After studying shorthand in a Brooklyn night school, he got a job as office boy to Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet...
...Langdon's lengthy sermons manuscripts has been uncovered in the University archives, and has been placed on public display in Widener Library along with other valuable early records. The manuscript is in a private, original shorthand, devised by Langdon so he could compress his notes. In this form, written minutely, the notes fill twenty-four pages. It is probable the sermon required more than two hours rapid talking for delivery, authorities agree. Nobody has yet undertaken to decode the message...
...came to Senator Harrison from Senator Bilbo's one-time law partner, Stuart C. ("Sweep Clean") Broom, with a speech which brought down the house wherever he delivered it. Boomed Lawyer Broom: ''I am a professor in the Bilbo school of politics; I can read his shorthand notes; I know his tactics. I am a Bilbo man and have always supported him, and when he is a candidate for re-election in 1940 and Conner is his opponent-and he will be as sure as there is a hound dog in Georgia- I will be found supporting...