Word: cablegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stressing the desperate need abroad for food, clothing, and books, Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48 issued an urgent appeal this week for immediate University aid to Europe in a cablegram from the Harvard Rest Home at Salzburg, Austria...
...Angel. Gitte, Sigrid told Robert, was very anxious to ship a crate full of "fragile personal belongings" to her fiancé in Manhattan. Would Robert be an angel and take it to the airport for her? Carefully Robert set the box on a jeep and pocketed a cablegram written out by Sigrid: "Send $150 immediately and you will see me soon. Gitte." But the cable office would not send it unless Siedentopf signed it with his own name...
...took ex-Theater Critic Brooks Atkinson six months and a personal cablegram to Joseph Stalin to get accredited to Moscow. Even before he left New York, the Times began going through the red tape necessary to get his successor in. Last week the Times succeeded. It had taken nearly a year and the intercession of U.S. Ambassador "Beedle" Smith to get the visa. Said Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Vishinsky to Beedle Smith: "The New York Times is not particularly friendly to Russia...
Twelve days after Tokyo's worst recorded earthquake (Sept. 1, 1923), famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a cablegram from the Japanese baron who ran the Imperial Hotel: "Hotel stands undamaged as monument to your genius. Hundreds of homeless provided [for] by perfectly maintained service. Congratulations. Signed, Okura Impeho...
...British captain in Cairo ripped open a cablegram from England, goggled in mute horror at the message: "Son born." Frantic inquiries at the cable office disclosed that Form Message 185 had been substituted for No. 85 ("Receiving letters occasionally"). The error made a difference to the captain: he had not seen his wife in two years...