Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mascali at the time of its destruction was Signor Giovanni Giurati, Minister of Public Works. His valises packed, he was quite prepared to leave the no longer pleasant island of Sicily. But a telegram from Il Duce informed him that he must direct the work of salvage. Efficiently Signor Giurati assumed the role of St. George, valiantly and often vainly fought the dragon with dynamite...
...evening Mr. Hoover spoke in St. Louis, President Coolidge sat near a White House radio. When the speech was finished, the President sent out for his secretary and dictated a long campaign telegram, concluding ". . . All the discussion has made more plain the wisdom of the plans you have proposed for solving our political, economic and social problems. You have shown your fitness to be President...
...nomination, many a dry-rural-Democrat had waited for a McAdoodle. Finally, last week, 72 hours before the election, it came: "I am absolutely opposed to Governor Smith's position on Prohibition and the 18th Amendment, but I shall preserve my party allegiance." That was the telegram which Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo sent to two Georgia newspaper editors who had queried him. Was it too late, or didn't it matter...
...Work, shrewd businessmen and active Democrats charged gross negligence. Republicans varied in their opinions and said he had been either unfortunate or thickheaded. Most embarrassing to Dr. Work was the comment of the strongly pro-Hoover New York Telegram, leader of the 26 Scripps-Howard chain-papers. Said the Telegram: "Stupidity is the most charitable interpretation. . . . Dr. Hubert Work is a liability, not an asset, to Herbert Hoover. . . . It has long been our opinion that Work is a lightweight. . . . Herbert Hoover would immeasurably strengthen his position with millions of American voters if he would drop that particular pilot...
Nominee Hoover's secretary, George Akerson, sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour...