Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other U. S. men-of-war, bluejackets experienced successive waves of wonder, envy, anger, relief. In Washington, Navy officials were shocked, embarrassed, furious. Secretary Wilbur, in particular, had to answer an irate telegram from Joseph Pool, the 15-year-old's father, asking how such things could happen. Since Navy tradition mentions only a wife in every port and none on shipboard and the regulations say very little about human nature, there was nothing that Secretary Wilbur could say beyond expressing regret...
...Candidate Woollen, in Republicanly corrupt Indiana, Candidate Reed sent a telegram asking permission to go there and speak, not for delegates but to "be of service to the party. That is my sole object." Candidate Woollen wired back: ". . . We all will gladly join in welcoming...
...York Telegram is in the process of creating a Mr. Fixit. It has been suggested by many an apartment dweller that his first duty be the invention of a noiseless...
Pitts Sanborn (the Telegram): "Whatever one's opinion, it was clearly nothing to be neglected...
...editors, Raymond E. ("Spike") Delaney,* had been a police reporter on the Bridgeport Telegram. He would rob a house and return to police headquarters, hear of the same robbery, cover the story. He would re-enter the house through the front door, give the policeman suggestions concerning the crime, return to his typewriter and write a florid story. He was a good friend, almost an assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost...