Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story on the Harvard Union ice-cream eating record, the title of David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41, as ice-cream champion of the Ivy circuit is contested. For Mitchell, who ate 18 dishes after a full meal and ran a cross country race the next day, yesterday received the following telegram...
...January 1936 Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker was appointed by the American Bar Association chairman of a committee of lawyers to meet with a committee of editors (under Stuart Perry of the Adrian, Mich. Telegram) and a committee of publishers (under Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer) to "agree upon standards of publicity of judicial proceedings and methods of obtaining an observance of them. . . ." The 18 members met twice, communicated often. Groundwork for the final report, considered at the A. B. A. convention at Kansas City this week, was a report which the A. B. A.'s Special Committee...
Reform v. Machine. Because New Dealer LaGuardia succeeded in winning in a Republican primary, because most of New York City's newspapers, including Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Joseph Medill Patterson's News are his firm supporters, the primary results were hailed as a great LaGuardia victory. Such they were, for stubby little firebrand LaGuardia had bothered to make only one campaign speech...
...Zena's death, Julian eventually discovers no better niche for himself in the post-War world than free-lance journalism, is last seen heading for the U. S., on the apparent principle of any port in a storm. Dubiously optimistic last line is supplied by a farewell telegram from the woman Julian has lately left, informing him that she is to bear his child, heir to the civilization Europe has squandered: "He lives who will...
Chief Quarantine Officer Akin snapped into action, ordered everyone quarantined aboard the docked Hansa. All passengers, however, had dispersed. To each went warnings by telephone or telegram advising him to beware of typhoid fever (which takes about two weeks to incubate), and to have doctors examine his blood, urine and stools for germs. Dr. Akin exploded: "This physician certified to my department that there was no prevalence of any dangerous or infectious disease on board, and if the presence of 24 people suffering with fever as high as 103°, nausea, weakness and headaches does not indicate the existence...