Word: mailgram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drum up support for the treaty, the Administration had been mounting an elaborate lobbying effort for months. One recruit was Actor John Wayne. Just days before he died of cancer, Wayne sent a Mailgram message to every Congressman warning that defeat of the Administration's bill "could result in the closing of the canal, which would quite obviously cripple our shipping, our ports, our exporters, and consumers, not to mention our military strength...
Sometimes I cry, too, but I guess with shame, not hunger. I urge you to send a telegram or mailgram to your senators (address: U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510), asking them to support S. Res. 264 and a two-year reauthorization of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. Please
...Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered back home to the Rockies. "This would be a good ski slope-there's a nice turn down there," he mused. He would have been better off in Vail. What he accomplished in Peking could have been done by Mailgram...