Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeing privately supported colleges and universities as most resistant to political domination, President Dodds of Princeton expressed his hearty agreement with President Conant's new 300th Anniversary Fund in a telegram to the CRIMSON received last night...
...lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully for Yen Hsi-shan, Shansi's "Model Governor...
Last week President Brown undertook to give the American Bankers Association in New Orleans (see above) a definitive exposition of the current business viewpoint. Commented Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot of the pro-Roosevelt New York World-Telegram: "Few speeches have ever been made . . . which presented the position of so-called big business so well. . . . The Republican party could build its entire campaign around his speech...
...fact, if not in theory, Secretary of State Cordell Hull became the Acting President of the U. S. under the Act of Succession of 1886.* If solemn Secretary Hull had not already realized the gravity of his trust, he must have done so upon receiving a telegram from Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, as that North Dakotan sailed away with other Congressional junketeers to the Philippines (see col. 1), concluding: "I wish you every success and great strength in these trying hours upon your office...
Before a rustling audience of 75, oldtime Actress Maude Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) swept into a Manhattan courtroom to defend herself in a prosaic $200,000 lawsuit. Carried away with the scene, the World-Telegram reported: "The courtroom was crowded with staidly gowned women and mustachioed old gentlemen. . . . On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan's cue line, spoken in the nursery, read: 'Dear night light, that protects my sleeping babes, burn clear and steadfast tonight.' . . . Today an attorney said: 'Miss Adams, will you take the stand, please...