Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating his 97th birthday, Col. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean, received at his home on the Isle of Mull a telegram of greeting from the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, Thus ended a feud which began 187 years ago when a Maclean chief suspected his wife of peccadillos with a Campbell...
...whom he saw at Henry Latham Doherty's 62nd birthday party last week (see p. 42), experienced old Arthur Brisbane wrote in his Hearstpaper colyum: "He is the man, daring all for science, who grafted the dead New York Evening World onto the half-dead New York Evening Telegram and said to the world 'Now watch it run.' It doesn't exactly run, but when you consider everything, Mr. Howard has done well. All his friends hope that circulation will improve, and that New York merchants will change their minds and decide to advertise...
Editor Brisbane and all other Manhattan news executives had reason to wish the World-Telegram well in its fight with local merchants. Twelve large department stores had withdrawn their advertising from the World-Telegram, presumably in protest against a rate increase. Department store lineage-about one-third of a paper's total lineage-dropped 80% in a week. John Wanamaker, R. H. Macy & Co. and James A. Hearn & Son alone remained...
Months ago the World-Telegram announced a 3? per line increase over old World rates, to align the paper's revenue with its merger-increased circulation. Other publishers feared that victory over the World-Telegram would spur the retailers to try to beat down other newspapers' rates...
...Crimson's outburst was not taken very seriously beyond Cambridge. At Princeton the Daily Princetonian politely opined that "the man who can show himself capable of carrying through the double task ought to be given every feasible encouragement and opportunity to undertake it." The New York World-Telegram, citing Herbert Hoover as a student who worked his way through college, exclaimed: "There would be more sense in barring those who earn none of their expenses than those who earn...