Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fish: . . . If the gentleman will permit to go into the Record the telegram written by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to the President, I shall not object...
What provoked that remark was Col. Lindbergh's telegram to President Roosevelt protesting the domestic airmail contract cancellations (TIME, Feb. 19). The $250,000 referred to was reputedly a gift from Transcontinental Air Transport to the flying Colonel in 1928. Col. Lindbergh was popularly supposed to have amassed a fortune from the aviation industry in return for "technical advice." Was the aviation industry now getting back its money's worth by pitting the popularity of Lindbergh against the popularity of Roosevelt...
...country. This criticism touched a tender White House spot. Stephen T. Early, the President's second assistant secretary, met it with a double-barreled reply. One barrel went off with a smart bang: Colonel Lindbergh, famed for his Press-shyness, had deliberately sought "publicity" by releasing his telegram to the newspapers before giving the President the courtesy of receiving it. The second barrel emitted a weak weasel: the Colonel's telegram was "in error" in its statement that the President had canceled the contracts. True, the President had not canceled the contracts but Washington and the world well...
...Durham, N. C. one night last week a committee of Duke University students dispatched the following telegram to Secretary Alex H. Sands Jr. and Judge W. R. Perkins, a trustee of the Duke Endowment...
...their own complaints in writing or hold their tongues. The students passed his resolution. Afterward they remembered Editor Edmondson's reputed closeness to Dean Wannamaker, wondered if they had not endorsed a bright red herring. From the Endowment trustees came no answer to the students' telegram. Said Dean Wannamaker: "I like to see the students have some fun. They acted too hastily. They do not know exactly what they want now but they are earnest and sincere and something will grow out of it." Other university officials pooh-poohed the revolt, urged Durham newspapers to ignore...