Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like its 22 sister papers of the lively, crusading Scripps-Howard chain, the New York World-Telegram (circulation: 395,000) has plugged for Franklin Roosevelt with friendly reporting, vigorous if unin spired editorials from the Washington bureau headed by George B. ("Deac") Parker. High point of Scripps-Howard editorializing came last fortnight in a glowing confession of faith which blurted: "Speaking generally, we are for Roosevelt for the same reason we think we would have been for Jefferson or Jackson or Lincoln had we lived in their day." Since providing President Roosevelt with a take-off for his famed "breathing...
...occasional messages were keyed so that Western Union could send them by merely dispatching the code number of the message with the addressee's name, the sender's signature. But Mr. Willever had not yet applied a special rate to the pre-fabricated telegram. It remained for the second summer of the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 to provide that wrinkle. To the throng of sightseers Mr. Willever offered form telegrams of greeting to be delivered for 25? anywhere in the U. S. So successful was this stunt that this year all Western Union "fixed texts...
Riding into Topeka, Alf Landon reclined in the bedroom of his private car as newshawks came in to interview him. He shoved at them a telegram from Republican Chairman Hamilton. It announced that arrangements had been made for him to speak in Los Angeles this week. Startled at this sudden change of plans, wondering if it was caused by new hope of California since Dr. Townsend advised his followers in California to vote for Landon (TIME, Oct. 19), newshawks asked why he was going...
...September 30, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of Hearst's New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times set off on the Hindenburg to race around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days...
...inalienable right which most of our free citizens exert in an inept and usually futile fashion, and if we may assume Professor Hocking wrote his speech after a visit to a night club it is easy enough to get the point of his remarks. --N. Y. World-Telegram...