Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, observers have been waiting for Al Smith to take his first step. He waited until the day before the convention began and then, with Joseph B. Ely, James A. Reed, Bainbridge Colby and onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan for co-signers, released an open telegram summoning convention delegates in the names of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland to nominate a "genuine Democrat" (which "would necessarily involve the putting aside of Franklin D. Roosevelt''), or give up their Party name...
This was generally assumed to mean that the dissident Democrats would vote, and perhaps campaign, for Alf M. Landon. But by the time their telegram, in preparation since March 9, had been made public, there were two standards to which Al Smith & Co. could rally...
...grind out thousands of divorces annually upon the stereotyped sin of the same big blonde attired in the same black silk pajamas? Is not access to the chamber of love quite uniformly obtained by announcing that it is a maid bringing towels or a messenger boy with an urgent telegram...
...Howard," said this week's announcement, "as second largest stockholder, continues as chairman of the executive committee and as president & editor of the New York World-Telegram. He is divesting himself of administrative responsibilities in order to associate himself more closely with Robert P. Scripps . . . in purely editorial activities, especially those pertaining to national and international relationships...
...opinion of his closest associates, lively little Publisher Howard relinquished the Scripps-Howard high command not that he might further indulge his instinct for finding and timing news, but rather to permit him to concentrate more attention on the World-Telegram...