Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Longshoremen. A similar order was expected by wire at this San Francisco Council meeting,* and Harry Bridges was out to vote defiance, to order a referendum on joining C. I. 0. He failed for the time being because William Green quietly went to bed without sending the telegram, and Bridges could not muster the three-fourths vote necessary to carry his motion in committee-of- the whole...
...Yankee instinct was for pay-as-you-go government and that is the kind New Englanders like. One time when Boss Roraback was in the South, Governor John H, Trumbull and the Senate Finance Committee chairman agreed that Connecticut must have a bond issue, announced it. An angry telegram from Roraback summoned them to a meeting at a Hartford hotel. Storming directly from the railroad station, Roraback demanded, -'What the hell's the matter with you fellows? Can't I leave the State five minutes without you plunging us into debt?" That was the end of that...
...telegram from a horse last week. The horse was Bozo, a big rangy hunter in a big box stall looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee's fertile Harpeth Valley. The man, owner of the horse, was slight, black-haired James Geddes Stahlman, 44, publisher of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He was in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan where the 51st annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association had just elected him its president...
...Stahlman's friends back in Nashville who had signed Bozo's name to the telegram of congratulations had wished him luck. "I'll need it," said he. "They should have sent me their sympathy." Jarred to its sacroiliac by the skull-thumping sock of the Supreme Court decision in the Watson v. Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), the spine of U. S. newspaper publishing ached last week...
...telegram from a "Crimson" editor yesterday that seemed to speak volumes by its stark simplicity. Here...