Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote the New York World-Telegram's Sportswriter Walker Stewart, on hand to interview Fisticutter Max Schmeling: "There was a little man with starved cheeks who was being booted down the deck. . . . Four sailors were driving the little man. . . . One of them had twisted his left arm until it cracked in the socket...
...Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight," suggested seeing him on his drought trip to Minnesota. To the President the sick Governor replied: "Very happy to see you at St. Mary's Hospital Aug. 31." The Roosevelt-Olson meeting, however...
Having thrown dead cats at New Deal Relief for two years, Republicans eagerly picked up this fresh ammunition from the Journal, let it fly. Quick to the WPA's defense rushed the New Dealish New York World-Telegram which pointed out that the survey covered only one WPA worker...
...Neither the Republican platform's monetary plank nor Landon's telegram to the National Convention interpreting the Party's money declaration as meaning currency based on gold would preclude consideration of the silver problem...
...Firm-chinned Chairman Avery Brundage of the U. S. Olympic Committee got himself into the spotlight by putting Mrs. Jarrett off the U. S. team last fortnight. Last week busy Mr. Brundage had equally momentous things to deal with. First he read the Press a telegram from one Gregory Vigeant Jr. of Kansas City, which said: "Mrs. Jarrett's example to young Americans is deplorable." Next he announced that two boxers, Joe Church and Negro Howell King, had been dismissed from the team for "homesickness"' because "homesickness is a contagious disease." Finally, as a grand climax...