Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long hailed Vera Zorina was unable to appear because of "extreme fatigue." Langdon Marvin, chairman of the Smoker Committee, read to the Yardlings a telegram from her explaining she had to retire on doctor's orders...
...defendants' lawyers showed that one or more of the words had also been published in the New Yorker, Esquire, some 20 books in the city's public library, Shakespeare and the Bible, the magistrate ruled the words were not obscene, dismissed the charge. The New York World-Telegram and Herald Tribune, carefully reporting to their readers that one of the words appeared in verse 7 of chapter 21 in the Book of Leviticus, ostentatiously refrained from mentioning them. The legal words: whore, whorehouse, hump...
...lift NBC into big money by selling its time to advertisers. Last year potent Mr. Aylesworth left NBC to sell national advertising space in Scripps-Howard Newspapers. He did the job so well that Roy W. Howard last week rewarded him with the publishership of the New York World-Telegram, top unit in the chain. Mr. Howard kept the editor's job; Mr. Aylesworth's job: sales...
...radio priest against the Reorganization Bill: "It will mean that it's none of the people's business how their tax moneys are used. . . . [It] sets up a financial dictatorship in the person of the President. . . . The immediacy of the danger insists that before tomorrow noon your telegram is in the hands of your Senator to stop the Reorganization Bill as Washington stopped George...
When Father Coughlin denounced the World Court in 1935, Western Union and Postal Telegraph handled 200,000 telegrams to Congressmen. Last week, result of his exhortation fell just short of that record, but it was second to nothing else in the history of U. S. communications. For hours after his speech, anyone in New York City who hoped to send a telegram had to wait at least an hour because the whole facilities of both Postal Telegraph and Western Union were being used by Father Coughlin's responsive listeners. By the next day, when the time came...