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...King of Utah, Democrat and Mormon, left Washington for a self-appointed investigating tour of Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Haiti. Last week in Porto Rico he received notice that he was not wanted in the Negro Republic of Haiti. Simultaneously, the Haitian Minister in Washington received a cablegram from the Haitian government. It said...
...jaunt to the shores of England is in prospect for the members of the University track team, it was declared by officials of the H. A. A. yesterday. A cablegram has been received from Oxford University giving final plans for the biennial invasion conducted by the Yale and Harvard cinder stars to compete against an Oxford-Cambridge team...
Queen Marie of Rumania received a cablegram from Bucharest last week, at Louisville, Ky. A few hours later she had engaged by telegraph staterooms C-47 to C-53† inclusive on the Cunarder Berengaria sailing five days later for Europe. Next day Queen Marie authorized a statement...
...last week the New York Times triple-column-headed a cablegram from Manhattan publisher George Palmer Putnam who had just discovered the secret of Professor Marvin's death while visiting Whale Sound in North Greenland. Times readers, well schooled to palpitate at Arctic news by the Times elaborate accounts of the Byrd and the Norge polar flights (TIME, May 17 and 24), were roused to a dignified excitement...
Shortly before the final adjournment of the Council was moved, Senhor Mello Franco strode in like the ghost of Banquo, dabbed his eyes with an ever damper handkerchief, handed to League Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond a cablegram. . . . The cable conveyed in 5,000 words the resignation of Brazil from her nonpermanent Council seat. The Council, not to be stampeded, refused to accept the resignation, held that the Assembly of the League is alone empowered...