Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini last week caused to be published in every Italian newspaper and aired by every radio station a momentous telegram from Adolf Hitler...
...friend, Critic Edmund Gosse, Baring sent a telegram: "Maurice Baring passed away peacefully this afternoon." At Gosse's Marsh heard Artist-Writer Max Beerbohm explain the diminutive figures in William Orpen's pictures: because Orpen was so short. "He sits down to paint, and says, 'Now I'll do a tremendously big fellow, I should think about five foot...
...last two years the Scripps brothers have got rid of two of their newspapers, cutting their chain down to eight. Weakest of these has been the Portland (Ore.) News-Telegram, chief loser in a circulation war between Portland's other two papers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. To boost the Journal's falling circulation, its shrewd business manager, Simeon Reed Winch, last week did the smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication...
Kept in the dark while negotiations were going on were some 150 News-Telegram employes, all but one of whom at week's end were jobless. Most disgusted of the 149 was Reporter Dave Dryden. Under him the Scripps Spokane Press had folded equally suddenly last spring. Cracked he: "It's the same damn routine-no warning or nothing. I'm getting tired of the Scripps tease. If these sheets keep on folding, they won't have a league left to stand...
...Herex was the eighth Hearstpaper to fold in two years, after Portland's News-Telegram (see above) the 80th U. S. daily newspaper...