Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affair of being in the public eye, his affected and transparent dislike for publicity, and his over-emphasis of the altruistic motive, as exemplified in the air-mail contracts wire. It is only too bad that he did not realize that he was going too far in sending this telegram to President Roosevelt--who saw through it easily enough--and only too sad that his publicity should have been one of the prime causes of the tragic loss of his boy, and by sensationalizing the whole affair, make it even more difficult for him and Mrs. Lindbergh to bear. Edward...
However indiscreet the Colonel's telegram may have seems, that was hardly grounds for speaking personally of him in such a disrespectful way. The sole point of Colonel Lindbergh's message was to the effect that the president had condemned men and companies whose explanation he had not first sought to obtain. As the editorial viewpoints of several newspapers suggest the proceedings in the United States Senate last Saturday echoed the very suggestions of the Colonel. "Nemo" must have had a blue Monday Christopher Janus
...Charles A. Lindbergh, the well known international boy scout, apparently does not view the order cancelling all air mail contracts with unmixed joy. Unfortunately, his telegram to Mr. Roosevelt was not appreciated by the President, who, oddly enough, felt that the former Boy Hero's motives were not entirely altruistic in spite of the fact that Lindbergh was thoughtful enough to publish the telegram prior to sending it so that Mr. Roosevelt could read all about it in the papers before he received...
...chief offenders. Moreover, he is financially interested in the companies which are affected by the new order, and his great yen for justice in this case is all too intimately connected with his pocketbook. Apparently, he expected--somewhat naively, one is inclined to think--that any telegram from him would simply be assumed to proceed from the most altruistic reasons. For how could the boy who flew across the ocean with only a sandwich for company, who was so blushing and modest and gawky in the face of virtual deification, who got bored at a risque musical comedy, who ostentatiously...
...Charles Dennis was managing editor of the News. When the War broke he had what he considered the best foreign staff of any U. S. paper ready for action. Harry Hansen, now the New York World-Telegram's book critic, followed the German army through Belgium. First description of Big Berthas to reach the U. S. came to the Daily News from Raymond Swing in Berlin. Lewis Edgar Brown was with the Serbian army that retreated through Albania. His reports were re-cabled from Chicago to the London Times. In London, Edward Price Bell got interviews with Lord Grey...