Word: tele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communications were badly disrupted. Commuters were badly delayed by subways which had been damaged or which lay near unexploded time bombs. Post offices shut down during raids. Let ters took three days to get across London, five to reach the country; and telegrams were almost as bad. Long-distance tele phoning was practically impossible. Euston, Victoria and Waterloo railway sta tions were badly damaged; the Victoria train shed, a massive thing of girder and glass, was crushed across tracks...
...Daily Express, Daily Herald, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, News Chronicle, Daily Sketch, Daily Tele graph & Morning Post, the Times, Daily Worker...
...Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come to trial, Wheeler was acquitted in ten minutes. As the verdict came in, a tele gram arrived from Washington telling of the birth of a daughter. Wheeler named her Marion Montana, the Marion after "Fighting Bob" (Robert Marion) La Follette Sr. On his 80th birthday, in Colum bus, Ohio, Jan. 26, old man Daugherty said he bore Wheeler no ill will, thought he would probably make...
...wished to send a girl a birthday wire, poor clam, I'd use a Western Union predigested tele gram-That'll show you what I am: Just a boob, a Simple Sam, But I have my one rebellion, and I stick to it, by damn-For in one thing, I insist, I'm a misbehaviorist, As heroic as they were at Valley Forge: With amazement hear me speak My accomplishment unique, I NEVER CALLED A PULLMAN PORTER GEORGE. If you want the other stanzas, you can find them in the files of the SRI.. Will...