Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable action, Senator Black slipped South Carolina's Representative John Jackson McSwain a copy of one telegram from Publisher Hearst which Senate investigators had taken from the Western Union files...
...keep the issue alive from a news angle, Publisher William Randolph Hearst jumped into the spotlight with a demand that the court keep Western Union from giving up to the Senate Committee a certain telegram which he sent April 5, 1935 to James T. Williams Jr., Hearst editorial writer in Washington, ordering a series of anti-New Deal editorials. Since this telegram was specifically named in a Senate subpoena, Justice Wheat declared it could not be classed as an unreasonable search and seizure of papers...
...special telegram to the CRIMSON, Alf Halvorsen, president of the Nansen Ski Club, sponsors of the race, announced that lack of snow and impassable road conditions have necessitated this move. The committee now plans to hold the races on Saturday and Sunday, April...
Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
Last week Scripps-Howard's vigorous New York World-Telegram surprised its readers and other Manhattan newspaper publishers by giving only two days' notice that it would forthwith begin publishing a six section, 5? Saturday edition, with six pages of colored rotogravure, eight pages of comics. The Journal, afternoon Hearst-paper which has hitherto had New York's 5? Saturday field to itself, refused to touch a full-page World-Telegram advertisement of the new edition. But $4,100 looked good to Publisher Edmond David Coblentz of Hearst's morning American. Fifteen hundred copies...