Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Congratulations on the best radio program I have heard over the air in-well, as a matter of fact, the best I have ever heard. We stayed up to hear it, and we almost wept over the World-Telegram dramatization. Whatever advertising agency is doing it for you deserves a great hurrah! JOHN FARRAR...
Meantime the metropolitan newspapers went for the city administration hammer- &tongs. Mindful of the crusading tradition inherited with its recent purchase of the World, the World-Telegram editorialized, in language less elegant, less thunderous but no less clear than Joseph Pul-itzer's writers used to use: ''Soon the idea may get across to Tammany. Soon Tammany may wake up and realize that even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News...
...great financier had attempted to send a telegram to Paris. It was not passed by the Government censor. When it was brought to Prime Minister George G. Mironescu he seized his hat, hopped into his limousine, dashed for the Royal Palace...
What was in the offending telegram was not precisely revealed; but a Government press spokesman said that it might have prevented Rumania from obtaining a French loan of $51,940,000 which she did obtain later in the week...
...sale of maddest the Worlds newspaper was scram the ble for circulation and advertising that New York newsmen could recall. Every paper in the city burst forth with great advertisements, bidding for the Worlds' late readers (313,911, morning; 276,267, evening; 491,796 Sunday). The World-Telegram was said to have started out with 750,000 (the Telegram itself had had some 250,000), but everyone knew that a large part of "curiosity" the total circulation. Of all the competitors none bid more strongly or loudly than youthful William Randolph Hearst Jr., who strengthen saw his and seized...