Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned by telephone to the Manhattan office of Col. Henry Breckenridge, counsel for Col. Lindbergh, were representatives of the approved list: the Sun, Post, World, Times, Herald Tribune, Telegram, Associated Press, United Press, Brooklyn Eagle, Acme News Pictures, Inc.? A "tip'' of such proportions cannot escape the grapevine telegraph for many hours. The meeting time found the invited ones augmented by newshawks from the Journal, American (Hearst- papers), Mirror, News, Graphic (tabloids...
...Acme News Pictures, Inc., a Scripps-Howard enterprise (like United Press. X. E. A., Telegram, etc.) was not invited. President Karl Bickel of United Press heard about it, hurriedly telephoned Col. Lindbergh, received belated admittance for Acme, an apology, an invitation to luncheon. ? Ridder papers: New York Staats-Zcitung, Herald, Journal of Commerce, Jamaica (N. Y.), Long Island Press. Seattle Times (minority interest), St. Paul Dispatch, Pioneer Press; Aberdeen, S. Dak. American, News...
Plans for a Honolulu honeymoon were altered by a telegram from President Hoover asking Bridegroom & Mrs. Smoot to return to Washington, stay at the White House, help get the London Naval Treaty through the Senate...
...Wales the Prince of Wales has stanch admirers, severe critics. Recently members of a prominent Cardiff club learned that H. R. H. had flown over to Le Touquet for a round of golf on Sunday. Last week they drafted and sent this telegram: WE RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS COULD SET A HIGHER EXAMPLE TO YOUR FUTURE LOYAL SUBJECTS BY REFRAINING FROM ENCOURAGING THE DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH...
...adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week's pay. Bye-bye, little boy, another guy hobbling on a cane in the State institution. Or work for the Sun, that gentle...