Word: cablegrams
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Petition. During the Embassy garden party a cablegram was handed Lady Astor. She read it, walked across a terrace, dropped to a half-kneeling position and handed it to Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov. Cried she dramatically: "I come to you with a petition as the peasants were wont to do before the Tsar!" The message began: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES PLEASE HELP MY WIFE IN MOSCOW. . . . It was signed by one Dmitri Pavlovich Krynine, onetime Soviet expert on roadbuilding sent to the U. S. to study local methods, who was injured in a motor accident, decided...
Only four of the twelve Presidents have completed their seven-year terms: Emile Loubet, Armand Fallieres, Raymond Poincare and Gaston Doumergue. If the President is a snooper he can have great fun?for a duplicate of every letter, telegram or cablegram received by the French Foreign Office goes by right and custom to the Elys?...
...Plan. That task was delegated to an adroit elderly, distinguished gentleman whom some people call "the leading American in London"-Vice President Francis Powell of the English Speaking Union, resigning Chairman of the Anglo-American Oil Co. Lawyer Chadbourne, his job done, sailed for home in response to a cablegram from his two daughters, aged...
Professor Shapley received an additional honor at the same time when a cablegram notified him that he had also been elected to the Royal Lombardy Institute of Sciences and Letters of Italy...
...Paris, officials of the French Line, now building a ship which they say will be largest, fastest, received from California last week this cablegram...