Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Starhemberg secured the release of all the arrested Heimwehrmen by nightfall. Then last week came his chance to strike back. Cocky Prince von Starhemberg, on his own authority, sent off a telegram to Benito Mussolini in honor of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
This exuberant telegram with its gratuitous sneers at democracy was possibly the stupidest move of that young man's none too thoughtful career. Hardly was it off the wires than the British and French Ambassadors came rushing round with angry protests. Kurt von Schuschnigg acted quickly, knowing that he had the support of the Catholic Church and the regular army to back him against Heimwehr and Nazi alike...
...League, in recognition of Mr. Hearst's great service to the cause of Americanism, has recently elected him as honorary president. He was notified of his election by telegram...
...room stalked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as Ethiopia's Mariam rose to read a pitiful telegram from nerve-shattered Haile Selassie, begging the League to "take no action that would legitimize Italy's outrageous aggression...
Died. George Henry Dickinson, 75, famed oldtime newsman, once managing editor of the New York Telegram, chief of the New York Journal's field bureau during the Spanish-American War; penniless, in Manhattan. For years his onetime reporters helped support...