Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly three weeks ago, Senator Van Nuys, vacationing in Michigan, received a telegram from Governor Townsend, inviting him to be a candidate for renomination before an "open" State convention. Last week, at Indianapolis. Governor Townsend orated: "I sincerely hope you will select those who will cooperate in the broad liberal program of our President for recovery and security." And Senator Van Nuys was renominated by acclamation...
Columnist Broun, fonder of Socialists than of socialites, at once cracked wise & down on Beebe, Peabody, and Groton, in his column It Seems to Me in the New York World-Telegram: "It may be held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys...
...famed handicap horse Discovery, co-heir with his brother George to the $20,000,000 fortune of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; to Manuela ("Molly") 'Hudson, 26. California cousin-by-marriage of Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; in Sands Point, L. I. Reported the New York World-Telegram: "Some cried, but Mrs. Margaret Emerson, Mr. Vanderbilt's mother, who has been married four times, was cheerful...
...Manhattan, the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram under contract with the New York Guild since April 1937, signed a new one-year agreement covering 550 employes and including for the first time all commercial department employes...
...more interested in party unity in Iowa than in the primary's outcome. Two days before the polls opened, he suddenly was able to play a political trump almost as big as the Hopkins endorsement. To his friend, Lawyer Ed G. Dunn of Mason City, came this telegram...