Standard Handbook for Secretaries BY LOIS IRENE HUTCHINSON. FIFTH EDITION WHITTLESEY HOUSE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. New York London 1947 AUTHORITIES CONSULTED Dictionaries Funk Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Funk Wag nails Company, New York. Excerpt from Funk Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary reprinted by permission from the Editor and the Publishers. The Oxford English Dictionary, The Clarendon Press, Oxford. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Websters New International Dictionary, G. C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. Excerpts from Websters Collegiate Dictionary reprinted by permission from the Publishers. English Handbooks Fowler A Dictionary of Modern Knglish Usage, The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Excerpts reprinted by permission from the Publishers. Fowler The Kings Knglish, The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Excerpts repiinted by permission from the Publishers. Hall English Usage, Scott, Foresman arid Company, Chicago. Hill Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition, American Book Company, New York. Hill The Principles of Rhetoric, Harper Brothers, New York. House and Harman Handbook of Correct English, Longmans, Green and Co., New York. Excerpt reprinted by permission from the Publishers. Jespersen Essentials of English Grammar, Henry Holt and Company, New York. Kittredge and Arnold The Mother Tongue, Jinn arid Company, Boston. Leonard Current English Usage, prepared for The National Council of Teachers of English, Chicago. Excerpt reprinted by permission from tho Publishers. OLondon, John Is It Good English, G. P. Putnams Sons, New York. Kxcerpt reprinted by permission from the Author and the Publishers. Sonnenschein A New Knglish Grammar, The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Vizetelly How to Use English, Funk Wagniills Company, New York. Excerpts reprinted by permission from the Author and the Publishers. Wendell, Barrett English Composition, Charles Scribners Sons, New York. Excerpt reprinted by permission from the Publishers. Woolley and Scott College Handbook of Composition, D. C. Heath and Company, Boston. Stylebooks Ives Text, Type, and Style A Compendium of Atlantic Usage, Little, Brown Company, Boston. Excerpts reprinted by permission from the Publishers. AUTHORITIES CONSULTED Summey Modern Punctuation, Oxford University Press, New York. The New York Times Style Book, New York. The University of Chicago Press A Manual of Style, Chicago. United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, Washington, D. C. Excerpts reprinted by permission from the Public Printer. Banking and Finance American Institute of Banking Banking Fundamentals, New York. Crowells Dictionary of Business and Finance, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. Harr and Harris Banking Theory and Practice, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Munn Encyclopedia of Banking and Finance, The Bankers Publishing Company, New York. Tates Modern Cambist, Spalding Editor, The Bankers Publishing Company, New York. Law Ballentine Law Dictionary, The Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Company, Rochester, New York. Bouviers Law Dictionary, Baldwins Century Edition, Banks-Baldwin Law Pub lishing Company, Cleveland. ExcerptH reprinted by permission from the Publishers. Corpus Juris The Whole Body of the Law, The American Law Book Co., New York. The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Martindale-IIubbell, Inc., New York. Accounting Daniels Corporation Financial Statements, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Finney Principles of Accounting, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York. Accountants Handbook, Paton Editor, The Ronald Press Company, New York Prickett and Mikesell Introduction to Accounting, The Macmillan Company, New York. Printing Freshwater and Bastien Pitmans Dictionaiy of Advertising and Printing, Sir Isaac Pitman Sons, Ltd., London. Insurance Crobaugh Handbook of Insurance, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York. Government Publications Congressional Directory, Government Printing Office, Washington, D...