Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the nation's Press was embroiled in a controversy as to whether or not President Hoover had been booed by rooters at the Philadelphia World Series baseball game. Sports Editors Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News and Joe Williams of the World Telegram reported booing. The Associated Press heard none. Consensus was that on the entry and exit of President Hoover, respectful folk in the grandstand near him cheered, folk in the bleachers, farther away, jeered...
...World-Telegram...
...Mayor, in his visit to President Lowell's office at 10 o'clock, was acting in behalf of New York authorities. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, and F. J. Taylor, chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment sent a telegram to Mayor Curley on September 29, requesting his cooperation in negotiations with University authorities...
...telegram, proposing that the game be played in the Yankee Stadium on October 17 with the balance of the guarantee fund to be distributed evenly to the unemployed of Boston and New York, Mayor Walker said, "Army officials at West point have indicated their sympathetic cooperation, and therefore Harvard's consent only is needed...
Sputtering, outraged, Mayor Bosler sent a telegram to the Governor, asking for troops. Capt. Harry E. Eldridge of the R. O. T. C. of the State Agricultural College at Jonesboro and Blytheville National Guard mustered 75 guardsmen, telegraphed the Governor: "Thousands of lives are endangered. . . . Declare martial law now or shoot down 1,000 church members with machine guns." The Governor sent his personal secretary. Came 150 more National Guardsmen...