Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acting Secretary Dean Acheson got on the phone to Byrnes; Byrnes and Truman talked with each other over a transatlantic circuit. Lights burned late in the Hotel Meurice, Paris headquarters of the U.S. delegation. Through a conference session in the Luxembourg Palace, Jimmy Byrnes ignored the speakers, sat scribbling shorthand notes...
After Jimmy Byrnes's shorthand had been transcribed, Acheson called in the Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires and handed him a blistering U.S. note: "These outrageous acts have been perpetrated by a Government that professes to be a friendly nation. . . . The use of force . . . was without the slightest justification in international...
Harvard men who found the pickings at Radcliffe pretty slim last month can take heart and try again. The first postwar session of the Radcliffe Secretarial School, a function of the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau, has brought 80 female faces to the Cambridge scene. With courses in shorthand and typing, the school runs for six weeks through July and August. Classes meet in Longfellow Hall five days a week from 9 to 12 and 1 to 3 o'clock...
Organized in 1932 by Miss Edith Stedman, Radcliffe '10, Director of the Appointment Bureau, who felt shorthand and typing were essential to the modern girl in quest of a job, the school ran every summer until 1942 when activities were suspended because of the war. This year Miss Stedman again heads the school, with classes under the direction of Mrs. Harold Quinlan, Wellesley '24, who has done graduate work and teaching at Simmons College and is now teaching at the Katherine Gibbs School...
Unique among the secretarial students is Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...