Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annapolis, because jokers signed his name to a telegram inviting Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fish as guest of a non-existent Annapolis Bluefish Association and the President-elect accepted, Boyd A. Farinholt announced he is forming an Annapolis Bluefish Association...
...Atlantic City President Green announced that he had received grave charges against one Sam Kaplan, autocratic president of Local 306 of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union of New York City. Most of the evidence against him and his henchmen had been dug up by the crusading New York World-Telegram. Kaplan was accused of drawing an exorbitant salary ($21,800 per year) not counting "gifts" the union voted to him. Union members complained that his bodyguards beat them up, forced them to contribute to his legal defense fund, deprived them of jobs, drove them out of the local...
...That as far back as 1928 the Telegram found circulation "irregularities," discharged its circulation manager, "cleaned up" the situation, as evidenced by a sharp drop in circulation...
...That the Telegram discovered its figure of 35,610 for October 1931 was too high, reduced it by 912 although Audit Bureau of Circulations believed the deduction too large...
...chief editors are 27-year-old Alfred Mitchell Bingham, Yale law graduate, son of Republican Senator-reject Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; Selden Rodman, founder and former editor of The Harkness Hoot, literate, insurgent Yale undergraduate magazine; and Charles C. Nicolet. able newsman who quit the New York World-Telegram to assist them. Deriving its name from Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet. Common Sense promised to "stand on a platform of protest, and present a forward-looking program...