Word: cablegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers of the Harvard Observatory have received a cablegram from Kiel, Germany, announcing the discovery of a new asteroid...
...Marina, 27, swam in the icy lake, galloped over mountain trails and strolled in the great park. The couple were dogged constantly by Inspector Harry Evans of Scotland Yard who has dogged Mahatma Gandhi, spends much time dogging Cabinet Ministers. One night Prince George sent a long cablegram to King George at Balmoral Castle amid Scottish scenery even wilder than the Slovene. Next day Prince Paul and his wife Princess Olga, eldest sister of Princess Marina, chaperoned her and Prince George on an excursion out of the Balkans to the Salzburg music festival. A few hours before King George announced...
Throughout the week Rabbi Wise and his Conference put on a good show of representing the "forgotten Jew," the petty Jewish tradesman who fills his shop window with anti-Hitler slogans. In a cablegram to the Conference last week Spearhead Samuel Untermyer of the anti-Nazi boycott begged Rabbi Wise not to give the impression that the boycott is primarily Jewish. "Few influential Jews are supporting us," declared Boycotter Untermyer. "No Jewish banker is a member of any boycott committee or has openly dared to support or contribute to the movement because of fear of German reprisals or because...
...conclusion, Sir John read to the House a cablegram from Premier Mussolini throwing Italy's full weight into the scale with Britain, France and Russia. Playing his stern godfather role to the limit Sir John cabled to Berlin and Warsaw, instructing His Majesty's ambassadors in the two capitals to bring the Eastern Locarno strongly to the attention of those governments. Poland, which must do as France and Russia wish in any case, was thus subjected to formal urging so as to avoid seeming to crack down exclusively on Adolf Hitler...
...enough to have President Roosevelt temporarily peg the dollar at 59.06¢ last January but to have Governor Harrison attempt to hammer it down permanently on gold at that level was more than he could stand. To Governor Harrison at Basle he dispatched a sizzling 1,500-word cablegram at 10¢ per word (at his own expense) which indicated how much steam inflationists still have up in their boilers. Excerpts...