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Mysterious Sea Breeze. Pending that decision, Romney leaped at an opportunity to peck at Lyndon Johnson about Viet Nam. Ironically, the chance came via Reagan, into whose hands a friendly but mysterious sea breeze wafted a radiogram from White House Aide Marvin Watson to Price Daniel, L.B.J.'s liaison man on board. Watson was advising Daniel on tactics for getting the Republican Governors to approve a pro-Administration resolution on Viet Nam. The advice was routine enough: remind the Republicans, especially Rockefeller and Ohio's James Rhodes, of their support at previous Governors' meetings. Reagan showed...
Breakfasting with island legislative leaders at his official residence one morning last week, Hawaii's last appointed Territorial Governor, William Quinn, was interrupted by his wife. "I thought you might want to see this radiogram," said Nancy Quinn. "It came a few minutes ago, and Cecily [aged 4] answered the door and opened the envelope. It could be important." It was; from President Dwight Eisenhower had come 1) notification that he had just signed the Hawaiian statehood bill, and 2) orders directing Quinn to proceed with appropriate plans for election of state and congressional officials...
...speed with which messages are delivered depends largely on the size of the town to which they are sent rather than the location, since the bigger towns have more "ham" operators. The average time required for a radiogram by a "ham" station is two days...
...rather a period of harvest. Most of the modern objects which are used so lavishly today had beginnings before 1900. Internal combustion engines, which made automobiles and airplanes inevitable, were running in the 1880's. Radio waves were discovered by Hertz in 1887, and the first paid radiogram was sent from the Isle of Wight in 1898. The first public telephone exchange was opened in New Haven, Conn, in 1878. The "germ theory" of disease dates from the 1860s. It is hard to find an important technological element in modern life that did not have its roots...
Implication. Urged on by a radiogram from MacArthur, the commission closed the trial a little more than a month after it began. By neat timing, they handed down their verdict on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. They found Yamashita guilty as charged, sentenced him to hang...