Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Schall wrote an insolent public reply which dodged the President's point: "Your telegram to me bears out the suggestion of the constant effort to mislead and fool the public. ... If it were not for the fact that I see in your request for 'information' an attempt on your part to appear as a victim of your own bureaucracy instead of its chief organizer. I would be inclined to ignore your telegram. . . . You ask me for information concerning what you yourself have done. Are you attempting to secure facts so that you may be in a position to refute...
Last year, in the New York World-Telegram Hole-in-One tournament, the first starter was 54-year-old Jack Hagen, professional at the Salisbury Country Club course at Westbury. L. I. where the tournament was held. He holed out a shot on the fly (TIME...
Last week, Jack Hagen was one of 447 players who shot five balls each on Salisbury's 148-yd. third hole in the World-Telegram's 1934 Hole-in-One contest. Odds against a hole-in-one are about 20,000-to-1. After 2,235 balls had been played last week, the closest to a winner was one hit by Edward Searle, 26, a Manhattan brick company sales clerk. It bounced across the cup, stopped 17 in. to the left...
...rolling in loaded to the scuppers and that most Japanese lines in the China trade have chartered extra freighters. Propped up in front of Chinese editors were orders from the Government threatening to suppress any newspaper which "supports the stand of the ignorant merchants." In a circular telegram the Generalissimo wrathfully declared: "THE GOVERNMENT WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE THE UNREASONABLE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC...
...days after the announcement Josephine Windle had become a celebrity and her statement was national news. Editorials appeared in the New York Times, New York World-Telegram, Boston Herald, the Boston Transcript, many another worthy sheet. Said the Transcript: "If the garment now called shorts should be lengthened to reach the knee, would it comply with the rule? Would it still bear its present name?" In Manhattan, Cartoonist Will Johnstone of the World Telegram made a picture of his tax payer playing golf dressed in a barrel, saying "Nobody objects to my shorts." In the New York Daily News, Cartoonist...