Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, when Scripps-Howard sold the Youngs town Telegram to the Vindicator, the chain's hold on Ohio began to weaken. Ohio was the birthplace of the late Edward Willys Scripps's great journalistic venture. Of its six once prosperous Ohio dailies, Scripps-Howard now has but three: the Cleveland Press, patriarch of the chain, the Cincinnati Post, the Columbus Citizen...
...William Green's eyes, the main obstacle to his resuming his position as the topdog of U. S. Labor is the superior favor enjoyed by his enemy with the present President of the U. S. In spite of a long telegram which Mr. Green sent to Hyde Park outlining the A. F. of L.'s objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner...
...prodigious whacking at Kennington Oval last week will hand the story down to future generations: how it took the best Australian bowlers three days to get him out; how he was at bat 13½hours, ran 6½ miles; how the mayor of Pudsey sent him a telegram after every 50 runs; how, when he surpassed Don Bradman's record, the game was interrupted, all the players shook his hand, a waiter in tails and white tie scampered onto the field with a drink of lemonade, 30,000 spectators rose as one and sang...
...modest self-assurance set Manhattan's press crowing louder than ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue in his cheek, blarney on his lips and the twinkle of the devil in his eyes." Said William D. O'Brien of the World-Telegram: ". . . A sight of Corrigan himself, with the lean peaked face alight with the puckish smile, the same captivating gift coming, it seemed sure, from the Little Folk of the very land he startled." Said Edwin C. Hill of the Journal and American: "The Corrigan, as cocky a bantam as ever...
...skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island. Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum of uproar, the commercial airlines of three nations were quietly getting down to the business of flying the Atlantic. The New York World-Telegram, one day when no transatlantic plane was in the air, printed a facetious front-page headline: U. S. VIRTUALLY CUT OFF FROM EUROPE...