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Word: telegram (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner were the first incredible reports of the MacCormick visit to Welfare Island announced than half a dozen agencies preened themselves on having instigated the raid. Among them were the Daily News, the World-Telegram, the New York Foundation, which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: World's Worst | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...will now take a ten-minute recess. during which you will go in person, call on the telephone, write a letter or send a telegram, fully and frankly confessing your most recent deceit, explaining a recent negligence, apologizing for a discourtesy or keeping an overdue promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Shame Chart | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...Last fortnight, the London Daily Herald claimed the world's biggest circulation (2,030,000). †The 16 Gannett papers: Rochester Times-Union, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Albany Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira Advertiser, Elmira Telegram, Newburgh News, Ithaca Journal-News, Olean Herald, Ogdensburg Journal, Beacon News. Malone Evening Telegram (all in New York State). Also Hartford (Conn.) Times, and Plainfield (N. J.) Courier-News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Administrator Without Code | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...Christian Century urged that exemption be reconsidered; denominational bodies discussed it and last week an even firmer opponent appeared in the person of Rev. Charles Stelzle, Presbyterian sociologist and publicist. In an interview in the New York World-Telegram he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Taxes | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals there. I never felt better in my life." With little respect for sober scientific fact, the New York World-Telegram printed fresh feature stories on "Pharaoh's curse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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