Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rogers Telegram Sirs...
Either TIME'S editorial staff is too modest, or else its hawk-eyed reporters did not see the Will Rogers telegram reproduced on page nine of Variety, twenty-fifth anniversary number...
...Major-General Pershing's first inkling of overseas service came in a telegram from his father-in-law, the late Senator Warren of Wyoming, asking if he knew French. Son-in-law Pershing wired back the "comparatively accurate" response that he once knew and spoke the language and could easily "reacquire" it. Not for days after he reached Washington did it dawn on him that he was being made, not a divisional commander, but chief of the whole...
Last fortnight Hearst editors looked dazedly first at a telegram, then at a photograph. The wire was from Publisher Hearst's secretary: "Some of the papers are printing trivial items relating to Lindbergh. ... As he has shown himself distinctly unfriendly, Chief cannot see any reason for helping any publicity efforts relating to him. . . . 'Trivialities are not news'." The picture, hot off the telephoto, an apparently exclusive shot by the Misses Selby and International News Photos showing Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh, Mother Anne, Grandma Morrow and Great-Grandma Mrs. Charles Long Cutter. Fearfully the Hearst editors stalled...
...resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found highly acceptable to the Guatemalan Congress. Apparently he was highly acceptable to the U. S. State Department as well. Within three days President Hoover sent a telegram to Senor Palma "wishing the Acting President success in his office," thus giving him diplomatic recognition. The only trouble was that Acting President Palma was not at all acceptable to the Guatemalan Army and a considerable section of the populace. Day after his recognition by the U. S., a General...