Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gleason) has bet their last nickel. Beaten, his ruin is completed when his mistress. Puff (Wynne Gibson), has her night club wrecked by gangsters, when his manager gets shot while opening a fight club's safe. While Puff and Slag are squabbling over their misfortunes they receive a telegram which makes Puff suspect that the manager has hidden some of Slag's earnings...
...Governor sat entranced while he listened to John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie place him in nomination. During the demonstration that followed he scribbled off a telegram: "My affectionate thanks to you, my old friend, for that fine speech. No matter what the result today, you and I always go on together...
...Your Guns." The long night session ending in three deadlock ballots, Governor Roosevelt followed intently by air. When the voting started after daybreak he took a sheet of paper and kept tally on his knee. When the third vote failed to produce a nominee, he sent a sizzling telegram to Chicago...
...Treasury, the White House gleamed in the night. Speaker Garner lighted a fresh cigar. It was too dark to see the expression in his eyes. Soon he went downstairs to bed. At 11 p. m. when Governor Roosevelt was nominated, the Speaker got up to send him a telegram of congratulation, rolled back to sleep immediately...
...cloak rooms and taxi driveway, he drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last week he got a telegram. He thought the judges, including Architects Ely Jacques Kahn and Whitney Warren, had decided. Fran tically he jumped into a taxi, urged the driver to speed. They were arrested. At midnight Richard Granelli reached the Institute at last, heard the news that he had won the $4.000 prize, giving...