Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TUCSON, ARIZ. DPR COLLECT, UNITED PRESS, NEW YORK
...HAVE GIVEN THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT TO ANOTHER PRESS AGENCY . . . AND TO BE FAIR I HAVE STIPULATED THAT IT IS AVAILABLE TO YOU BUT NATURALLY I DO NOT WISH IT REWRITTEN OR ONLY PARTIALLY DISTRIBUTED. AM SENDING IT COLLECT BUT IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO USE IT I WILL PAY THE COSTS. I HAVE NOW HAD OPPORTUNITY TO READ THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. APPARENTLY...
...THERE ARE FIVE COMPELLING REASONS FOR THIS ACTION. ONE IT WOULD. . . ." An astounded UP editor who had watched this unsolicited opinion from a person unknown unravel before his eyes, sprang into action. To Tucson he flashed this query: WHO IS SENDING COLLECT ENDLESS OPINION ON GOLD? Back came the answer: SENDER OF COLLECT MESSAGE IS HERBERT HOOVER...
...grinned. Meantime another 100 words of collect message had come through on the first machine. Soon 400 words had been clicked out. The editor's brow clouded: Was this an expensive practical joke? He sat down again and asked: TUCSON, ARIZ. ARE YOU SURE COLLECT MESSAGE IS SENT BY EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER? Click, Click, Click. The machine responded: SENT BY HOOVER IN PERSON. The editor shrugged. About that time, at the end of 600 words, the original message ended. Cost to the United Press...
...days newshawks had trailed him, begging in vain for some comment. Sternly he put them aside with: "I am no longer in public life." At Tucson, however, the press clamor became so insistent that he put his private thoughts on public paper for the Citizen, personally distributed them collect to the Associated Press, the United Press...