Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover, fisherman-author of A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes, acknowledged the importance of the occasion by sending a telegram: THE PROTECTION AND PROPAGATION OF THE USEFUL WILD LIFE OF THE COUNTRY IS OF MUCH GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN IS GENERALLY REALIZED. . . . THE BIOLOGICAL FACTS SHOULD BE FIRST...
...This telegram, like thousands of others in modern business today, was sent by Radiotelegraph and not by Cable; hence, the designation ''cablegram'' is a misnomer...
...side of the question. There is charming, blonde Lois Moran, recently of the audible cinema. Her legitimate stage technique is somewhat adolescent, but she is satisfying. There is Geoffrey Kerr, who not long ago wrote and acted in London Calling and is author of the Vanity Fair telegram-stories. He is an expert mummer. Also in the cast is Audray Dale (One, Two, Three!), talented, dark, svelte...
...Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent a telegram to Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of Alaska Agricultural College & School of Mines, asking him to investigate. Two days after the first reports, W. J. McDonald, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest, confirmed the discovery. He found the animal to be only 24 ft. long, resembling a huge lizard with...
...York. New York City's rackets and gunplay are easily in a class with Chicago's. But not until this month have Manhattan newspapers given local crime the publicity Chicago's press usually affords it. The New York Telegram, after a survey, reported that there had been 89 shootings in the city within one month. Aroused by this and other testimony, District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain last week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened...