Word: cablegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent villagers in the hamlet of Balaton-fured, Hungary, puzzled last week over an intense, anxious cablegram signed by Poet-Sage Sir Rabindranath Tagore of Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting...
...name of 5,000 U. S. Jewish veterans a cablegram was despatched to Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby: "Thirteen years ago we stood on the battlefields of Palestine under your leadership, prepared to sacrifice our lives for the redemption of the Holy Land. In those days we learned to look up to you for your integrity and high sense of honor. In this hour of crisis your soldiers appeal to you to prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honor and to discredit the British sense of fair play and justice...
Heartened by such a program of negotiation, Soviet Foreign Minister Chicherin cabled to President Coolidge a fortnight later his government's "readiness to discuss all the questions in your message." This cablegram cracked the door toward resumption of diplomatic relations. There was, however, at that time no pressure from Big Business for better trade relations to open the door further...
That, thought a puzzled Customs official, year ago, was a strange cablegram for Superfine Watch Co. of Manhattan to send its associate at Biel, Switzerland. The official was going through Superfine Co.'s correspondence to find out why it alone could sell imported watches at extraordinary cut rates. To learn more about "Esther," he ordered a U. S. secret agent in Italy to go to Biel, there to investigate one Marie Salzmann, recipient of the cablegram...
With never a smile, Big Black President Louis Borno of Haiti last week handed correspondents a copy of a cablegram from Washington...