Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telegram received late Saturday night from H. E. Robbins '35, Harvard Freshman accompanying the student delegation investigating conditions in Kentucky, reads as follows: "Last night kidnapped trying to enter Kentucky but escaped in danger of life. Plan national protest. Conditions in Kentucky as described by its worst critics true. Am dead tired, no sleep for four nights. Morale wonderful of whole group...
...telegram was sent by the editor of the American Legion Monthly to headquarters in Indianapolis asking that I be allowed to appear before their contemplated meeting in New York to tell of the groups which were then cooperating and organizing for a re-employment drive. I appeared the day of the meeting on Jan. 6, 1932 and also the day after and at both meetings described the work the small committee had been doing, the contacts it had made. Since the Legion was thinking along the same lines, it seemed obvious that a great good could be accomplished...
...Derby was out of the race. Boiling mad, Mr. Smith flashed back: "You are trying to put me in a false light with my friends in Massachusetts. . . . I welcome their support. . . . I battled hard for the principles they stand for and I am ready to do so again. . . . Your telegram seems to me a bit tricky. . . ." Retorted Boston's Mayor: "In the words of the poet, 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!'" When a complete slate of Smith delegates, headed by Governor Ely and Senator Walsh, was put into...
...Manhattan the World-Telegram (Scripps-Howard) flayed the interview, refusing "to believe that American justice has sunk so low that it must go begging and bargaining for such help...
...inclination, to give a long yell for the grandson of one of the college's first patrons. But Colgate University yelled lustily for 68-year-old "Jimmy" Colgate at a banquet celebrating his 50 years of association with the university, as student, alumnus, patron. President Hoover sent a telegram of congratulation. So did Chief Justice of the U. S. Charles Evans Hughes, who went to Colgate for two years. Finance Chairman Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel Corp. praised James Colby Colgate as a banker. Alumnus Harry Emerson Fosdick (1900) recalled how, as a poor student years...