Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry La Guardia continued a Congressional attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger." An alert deskman for the New York World-Telegram put 1 2 3 & 4 together and produced the following dispatch, purporting to come from Riga notorious (like Winsted, Conn, and Evanston, Ill.) as a source of outlandish stories...
...spite of its caustic critics the advertising industry continues to poison its own wells. The latest example of the inept bogus is a telegram from the Realsilk Hosiery Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that...
...renominated Mr. Hoover and adopted a Wet platform at Chicago, the tall white-haired lady pointedly replied: "The President would have to take the consequences. That's all." This White House visitation prompted Rollin Kirby to produce for the New York World-Telegram a cartoon of the kind that made him famous: Mr. Hoover, hot and worried in his shirt sleeves, at an old fashioned tub scrubbing "Anti-Saloon Linen" while a severe old woman, her arms crossed, stands by to keep him at his job. Title: "Our Man!" ¶The temperature rose to 78° in Washington...
Friends of the Brown Derby insisted Mr. Smith had dictated that section of his address himself. When Governor Roosevelt was shown the two sections, he laughingly remarked: "Merely a coincidence." The flowery allusiveness of the Roosevelt speech at St. Paul moved Heywood Broun, New York World-Telegram colyumist, last week to write: "The fighting Governor is going before the country on the proposition that Thomas Jefferson was a better man than Alexander Hamilton. . . . The fearless one will eventually come out against the extravagance of Grant's second administration. ... A primer for voters might well begin with the injunction...
...Whitney may well have been surprised, upon reaching Washington last week, to learn the origin of his hurry call. Senator Walcott of Connecticut had, it seemed, received a telegram from no less a personage than Publicist George Barr Baker, faithful friend and volunteer adviser of President Hoover, disclosing the imminence of a "billion-dollar bear raid." The Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, on which Senator Walcott, once a Wall Streeter himself (Bonbright & Co.), is the Administration's spokesman, wanted Mr. Whitney to get up a complete list of persons on the short side of the market, wanted to quiz...