Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warned the public. Last week they explained why: it is impossible to tell just where tornadoes will strike, therefore "to predict them would cause more trouble by the unjustified anxiety aroused than is likely to be done by a tornado itself." To this the New York Telegram retorted editorially...
Indeed even before the President's telegram was answered, the serious voice of Virginia's Senator Carter Glass proclaimed: "No group of Democrats, however distinguished or discerning, should feel obliged to pledge their party associates in Congress not severely to disturb the most infamous tariff act ever enacted by a legislative body. ... I confess to some astonishment that anybody should feel impelled to apologize for an apparent Democratic victory. . . ." Many another voice, particularly from the South, echoed Senator Glass. By the week's end, what looked like a real revolt against the seven leaders (Messrs. Smith. Davis, Cox, Robinson, Garner...
William Johanne La Varre Jr., onetime circulation promoter of the New York Times and New York World, and Harold Hall, onetime business manager of the New York Telegram, bought the four papers last year for $870,000 loaned them by I. P. & P. In return they gave the paper company their joint note, secured by the stock of the newspapers. But the certificates were not turned over (TIME, May 20, 1929 et seq.). Soon after the disclosure of I. P. & P.'s venture, Partners Hall and La Varre quarreled, and Partner Hall sought an injunction to restrain Partner...
...deciphering typographical errors, few newspaper readers know precisely how they come about. Characteristic mistakes in news texts are transposition ("amy" for "may," "ear" for "era") and substitution ("bottle" for "battle," "love" for "live"). Printing of "slays" for "slaps" once resulted in a $50,000 libel suit against the Telegram (TIME, June 9). Such errors are caused by a finger-slip of the linotype operator, whose typesetting machine has a lower-case keyboard arranged in this manner...
...Manhattan, Allen Orman, 23, held up with a toy pistol Frances Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair of silk stockings. Then Allen Orman telephoned her, asked for a tryst. Frances Tauber agreed, took with her two detectives, sent amorous Allen Orman to jail...