Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alarmed, peppery little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia sent a telegram to Manhattan. Reassuring, lively little Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democracy telegraphed back: "The story of Jack Johnson being authorized to speak on behalf of the Democratic National Committee is cheap Republican propaganda. Johnson has no connection with this committee in any capacity...
...Your telegram of August 17, came to the attention of the writer asking for information on our sales figure. We decided for competitive reasons it would not be proper to disclose such figures. We are sorry that it is necessary to decline the information. Anyway our sales have been so phenomenal that if we did give you the information probably half the readers would not believe...
...telegram told meagerly that both Servitor Tschirpe and his wife (also old) had been murdered, at Leuthen, near Sagan in Silesia. Soon the curtly ordered equerry panted and scrambled down with a presidential telegram which took automatic priority over every other message on the wires between Bavaria and Silesia...
...group of minor reporters one figure emerged as dimly familiar. The name, it seems is Grouse. He was greeted by a kindly burst of applause from a warm-hearted audience and he received at least one telegram from a former editor stating (we hope not ambiguously), 'Your work was unbelievable.' To this we may add that he gave the best back view of a city newsman ever presented in a ten-line part and in a five-minute big emotional scene with a ham sandwich...
...World printed the words of the Chicagoans as news, and then laughed editorially: "Now it would be idle to deny that when we sent our telegram asking for the 1,000 words, we did so in a very facetious humor. We did not believe that the cartoon had actually caused any excitement. . . . For we have been in this business a long time. We were established May 10, 1883, and forty-five years have taught us a great many things; and as we visualize the scene in the Chicago Daily News office when our telegram was received, it went something like...