Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years military tactics and strategy will be judged on whether they are pre-or-post Hiroshima, so diplomatic dealings today are dated backward & forward from Yalta. That was the key conference of World War II. Jimmy Byrnes was not only there; he was therewith pad & pencil in hand. His shorthand notes are still the best record-in the U.S., at least-of what went on at the Czar's Palace in the Crimea...
...workings of the U.S. Government. He is one of the few men in history who has held high office in all its three branches. Born to poverty, on the wrong end of Charleston's King Street, he ran errands for his widowed mother (a seamstress), studied shorthand, learned to know politicians as a court reporter...
...Shorthand to Songs. The career of Billy Rose, who began life as William Samuel Rosenberg, has always been eventful. Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the son of a man "who, when people were doing passementerie, he handled fringe," Billy made the high-school track team by learning to jump the gun without detection, became a shorthand whiz and stenographer for Barney Baruch ("Baruch is still the only idol in my book"). But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley. There, writing the lyrics for such song hits as Barney Google, Million Dollar Baby, Rainbow Round...
...British Government were as intelligent as George Bernard Shaw, it would junk the English alphabet, adopt a new one of 42 letters so that each sound would have its own symbol. So wrote Shaw to the London Times last week. For years he has used Pitman shorthand to save time in writing. Said Shaw: "The fact that Russia, with its 35-letter alphabet, can spell my name with two letters [Wo ] instead of four may conceivably make it impossible for us to compete economically in the world with Russia...
...plot centers around an original angle in the Washington turmoil and chaos theme, the servant situation, and an old one, the rooming situation, with the red tape of bureaucracy is thrown in for good measure. Pretty Paulette Goddard, as a neophyte secretary who prefers memorization to shorthand, cancels her boss's (Fred MacMurray) reservations in a crowded Washington hotel because she doesn't like the rooms and then the fun starts...