In order to avoid degrading himself, he wrote in the same memo he would retire at age 35 to pursue the practice of philanthropic giving for "... the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.

The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973.

In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system.

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru wrote a memo calling for India's borders to be clearly defined and demarcated ; in line with previous Indian philosophy, Indian maps showed a border that, in some places, lay north of the McMahon Line.

On February 1, 1945 Eisenhower wrote a memo ranking the military capabilities of his subordinate American generals in the ETO.

Welles screened the new cut and wrote a 58-page memo to Universal's head of production, Edward Muhl, detailing what he thought needed to be done to make the film work.

William Rehnquist wrote a memo titled " A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases " when he was a law clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson in 1952, during early deliberations that led to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

On July 1, 1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a memo directing that the maps of India be revised to show definite boundaries on all frontiers.

In a cover memo, Devaney wrote “ A culture of ethical failure ” pervades the agency.

CEO John J. Mack wrote in a memo to staff " we're in the midst of a market controlled by fear and rumours and short-sellers are driving our stock down.

In 1942 Mauchly wrote a memo proposing the building of a general-purpose electronic computer.

Two days later, in response to the incident, in a memo to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, his Special Assistant Walt Rostow wrote: " retaliation is not the point in this case.

But Perrow's conclusion that the accident was unavoidable is belied by the fact that a TMI control room operator wrote a memo warning of " a very serious accident " if the condensate system problems were not properly addressed.

Thomas Morley, who was in charge of getting the firm to better manage its cash, wrote a memo to Hutton's president, George Ball, saying that this practice netted one branch an extra $ 30, 000 per month.

Luce wrote a memo to the Time, Inc. board in November 1929, " We will not be over-optimistic.

Both Thorpe and Hurd quote a memo that Macmillan wrote in 1963, intended to help the Queen choose his successor:

) In 1986, Tanton wrote a memo containing remarks about Hispanics claimed by critics to be derogatory, which appeared in the Arizona Republic newspaper, leading to the resignations from U. S. English of board member Walter Cronkite and executive director Linda Chavez ; Tanton would also sever his ties to the organization as a result.

Regarding the " radio music box " prediction, the memo he allegedly wrote making that claim has never been found, but Louise Benjamin, the author of the 1993 article which expressed skepticism about it has since back-tracked somewhat.

She and the curator of Sarnoff's papers found a previously mis-filed 1916 memo that did mention Sarnoff and a " radio music box scheme " ( the word " scheme " in 1916 usually meant a plan ); Benjamin wrote a follow-up article about Sarnoff and the radio music box in 2002.

In 1970, Moynihan wrote a memo to President Nixon saying: " he issue of race could benefit from a period of ' benign neglect.

On 1 February, as the offensive reached its height, he wrote a memo for his staff — which was never delivered — claiming that " The enemy is attempting to confuse the issue ... I suspect he is also trying to draw everyone's attention from the area of greatest threat, the northern part of I Corps.

Excerpts from the letter were published in the Chronicle on November 12 including the Zodiac's claim ; that same day, Don Fouke wrote a memo explaining what had happened that night.

* In December 2010, Stephen Colbert wrote and performed an " extended ending " to ' Send in the Clowns ' to composer Stephen Sondheim when he appeared on Colbert's program, The Colbert Report.

They later learned that an NKVD agent was hiding in the bushes outside their window and wrote down every word they said to each other.

During the Korean War, Hunter, who worked at the time both as a journalist and as a U. S. intelligence agent, wrote a series of books and articles on the theme of Chinese brainwashing.

Indeed, he wrote that a landowner is free to kill any stranger on his property between dusk and dawn, even an agent of the King, since it isn't reasonable to expect him to recognize the King's agents in the dark.

" So I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U. S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job for $ 25, 000.

In January and February 1926 Rilke wrote three letters to the Mussolini-adversary Aurelia Gallarati Scotti, in which he praised Benito Mussolini and described fascism as a healing agent.

Jules Verne, in From the Earth to the Moon, published in 1865, wrote " there will some day appear velocities far greater than these the planets and the projectile, of which light or electricity will probably be the mechanical agent ... we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars.

Eisner subsequently wrote and drew the pirate strip " The Flame " and the secret agent strip " Harry Karry " for Wow as well.

Thoreau wrote, " My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with -- for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel -- and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government.

Writer Howard, an agent selling a distressed cargo of slaves from a shipwreck in Tortola in 1803 wrote that " Tortola is well nigh the most miserable, worst-inhabited spot in all the British possessions ... this unhealthy part of the globe appears overstocked with each description of people except honest ones.

To exploit the success of Deighton's first four " Unnamed Hero " novels, he wrote Len Deighton's London Dossier ( 1967 ), a guide book to Swinging Sixties London with a " secret agent " theme – contributions from other writers are described as " surveillance reports.

Missionary John Harris of Baringa, for example, was so shocked by what he had come across that he wrote to Leopold's chief agent in the Congo saying: " I have just returned from a journey inland to the village of Insongo Mboyo.

He wrote his agent, " I don't mind making another picture with her, but as for this ' team ' idea, it's ' out!

He wrote that the " clear unfolding of truth " within his teachings was due to " the simple fact that God's due time has come ; and if I did not speak, and no other agent could be found, the very stones would cry out.

He then traveled to Ferrara to the Este court where he wrote the motet “ La mi la sol la sol la mi ” in merely two days and competed with Josquin for employment: a famous letter from the agent of the Este family compared the two composers, saying that " is of a better disposition among his companions, and he will compose new works more often.

Martika was encouraged by her agent to combine her love of film and music by scoring soundtracks and, in 1990, she wrote and recorded the song “ Blue Eyes are Sensitive to the Light ” for the soundtrack to the film Arachnophobia.

Kasche wrote: " Schmidllin showed a special interest in the Jews ... Luburic told me that Schmidllin told him that the Jews must be treated in the finest manner, and that they must survive, no matter what happens ... Luburic suspected Schmidllin is an English agent and therefore prevented all contact between him and the Jews "

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Robert Livingston of New York, stressing the importance of removing the Stamp Act from the public debate, wrote to his colony's agent in England, " If I really wished to see America in a state of independence I should desire as one of the most effectual means to that end that the stamp act should be enforced.

He also came across Stephen Vaughan, an agent of Thomas Cromwell and an advanced reformer, who recommended him to Cromwell: " Look well ," he wrote, " upon Dr Barnes ' book.

Besides working for a Hollywood agent, he wrote several scripts and developed projects for television.

Quentin Tarantino wrote a part in Reservoir Dogs with Woods in mind, but Woods ' agent rejected the script without showing it to the actor.

The earliest use of the Maypole in America occurred in 1628, where William Bradford, governor of New Plymouth, wrote of an incident where a number of servants, together with the aid of an agent, broke free from their indentured service to create their own colony, setting up a maypole in the center of the settlement, and behaving in such a way as to receive the scorn and disapproval of the nearby colonies, as well as an official officer of the king, bearing patent for the state of Massachusetts.

Pitts was the second FBI agent to mention Hanssen by name as a possible mole, but the FBI simply wrote this off as a reference to the Mislock incident.

They also wrote that "" Drudge, with his droll Dickensian name, was not the only media or political agent whose actions led to John Kerry's defeat.