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Word: telegram (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telegrams. While Franklin Roosevelt waited in vain for any answer from divine Emperor Hirohito covering the Japanese sinking of the Panay, he received a telegram from Alf Landon. A year ago, Alf Landon promised the President support in matters of international policy. Last week, Mr. Landon took advantage of the Panay sinking to reiterate his pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Panay Repercussions | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...submitted to experts on both sides of controversial questions before publication. Although every issue asks U. S. schoolchildren to think about how better use can be made of the nation's resources. Building America has thus far escaped serious attack. Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram denounced the Power issue as propaganda for public ownership of electric utilities, but that dispute wound up with Scripps-Howard's Editor George B. Parker eulogizing the magazine as "one of the best [ideas] in the whole history of education in America." Month ago Editor & Publisher, house organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Building America | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Birthday presents received by 42-year-old Bertie included: a smoking cabinet with pipes and Virginia cigarets from his daughters; four magnificent Arabian steeds from King Ibn Saud of Saudi-Arabia; a telegram from Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bertie's Birthday | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...short, stocky, quiet, efficient-looking servant, whom he hired on the spot. For 14 years in Mr. Sears' Oyster Bay, L. I. home, Alfred Grouard was a faultless chef who in spare time read religious works, prayed, but never left the estate, never received a letter, visitor, telegram, telephone call. Year ago Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused to be examined. Last February. Mr. Sears rented a room for his servant in a boarding house nearby sent Grouard there for "a good rest " Grouard never left the room. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

AMOS MELTON Star-Telegram Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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