Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days after election Democratic House Leader John Nance Garner of Texas received that telegram. His red cowboy face twisted up into an even redder knot of merriment. "N. L." was, of course, his great & good friend Nicholas Longworth. Republican Speaker of the House. The "car" was the dark blue Packard limousine (1928 model) assigned by the Government to the House's presiding officer. Because the car would pass to him if the Democrats should control the House and elect him Speaker, Congressman Garner had often joshed Speaker Longworth about "our car." To Speaker Longworth he telegraphed this reply...
...after election. Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was in San Francisco about to embark with two friends on the S. S. Maui for a fortnight's business-&-pleasure trip to Hawaii. Three hours before sailing time a messenger handed Mr. Woodcock a government telegram from Washington. His face puckered as he read it. Cancelling his bookings, letting his friends sail without him, he explained to newsmen: "President Hoover has called me East for a conference...
Thrifty Manhattan housewives who scanned an early edition of the New York Telegram one day last week, blinked at a large advertisement for R. H. Macy & Co. Macy's, they well knew, boasts a policy of underselling; but it seemed astounding even for Macy's to announce in big type: "These coats are usually $58.75?$8.94." Still more baffling was the line below: "These dresses are usually...
Next day the Telegram priced the figures in their proper arrangement?$58.75 coats at $48.75; $13.74 dresses at $8.84? and humbly claimed blame for the printer's blunder. Also printed was a courtly exchange of flourishes between Publisher Roy Wilson Howard who "instantly offered to pay the difference in price to Macy's," and Macy's who "refused on the ground that it was distinctly unfair to any newspaper to penalize it so heavily...
Heywood Broun, Telegram...