Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Break. "Call in the newspaper men! I've got a real story," shouted Roosevelt Manager Farley as he read a telegram from Washington. It was from Senator James Hamilton Lewis, releasing Illinois' 58 votes pledged to his candidacy. His explanation was that he had to remain in the capital to do his sworn duty on relief legislation. This first break in the ranks of the Favorite Sons prompted the Roosevelt leaders to claim half the Illinois delegation...
...Spurred by a telegram from King Albert, Premier Renkin of Belgium secured the initialing of a Customs Union Pact by the Netherlands, Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, subject to ratification by their parliaments...
...solitary survival, that Dr. Alexander Lesser, financed by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages, was transcribing & translating Kitsai history as she had dictated it to him the past two summers. He is also preparing a Kitsai grammar to preserve the tongue. Last week he sent her a telegram, inquiring for her health, telling her he would be back soon...
...gave him the enormously lucrative representation of the American Weekly there. When Hearst asked him in 1929 to go East again to take hold of the Journal, Adman Swasey went reluctantly. During his administration the Journal made circulation gains for 27 consecutive months. With the exception of the World-Telegram, whose advertising naturally soared on the World merger, the Journal was the only Manhattan evening paper to gain advertising last year. Chief among Publisher Swasey's expressed reasons for asking to be returned to the Pacific Coast was California homesickness, aggravated by high cost of living in Manhattan...
...hands of receivers last week: Celotex Co. of Chicago and Russell Manufacturing Co. of Middletown. Celotex is a big maker of wallboard and similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large Government contracts for Army belts...