Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telegram offering means of compromise on the Harvard-Oxford debate was dispatched last evening by Frederick deW. Bolman '35, Harvard Debating Council President, to the New York headquarters of the National Broadcasting Company, which will relay it to the Oxford Union Society...
...text of the telegram follows: "In case Oxford cannot accept affirmative of censorship resolution, would suggest split team debate on same subject, one Oxford, one Harvard speaker on each side. Suggest Oxford affirmative man send us two affirmative arguments, designating preference for one. Harvard negative man will submit two negative arguments, designating preference for one. This exchange to be made by November 21. Would this suit you and London? Can you communicate this with London and Oxford immediately in case Oxford has not replied to previous cable...
...censorship question to which the telegram refers is: "Resolved, That this House considers a censorship of news desirable." Each University wishes to take the negative side...
...interplay of mighty offstage forces. This is the adventurous and highly successful technique Author Reginald Berkley and Director Henry King have used in presenting the adventures of Marie Galante (Ketti Gallian), a French girl shanghaied by the captain of a tramp steamer to whom she was delivering a telegram. Reaching Panama, she is filled with only one idea-the determination to get home again-and through her tiny, personal crisis, as she seeks help from one man after another in the Canal Zone, is gradually revealed the gargantuan plot of a munitions firm to start a war by blowing...
...telegram was sent to Lehman, punctuated with stinging phrases. It criticized the police action, and added...