Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sands Point (L. I.) Bath Club washroom and invited the Roosevelt Administration to "go to hell" before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, a Women's Committee of Louisiana, composed mostly of New Orleans socialites and headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sat down to write a telegram. It was addressed to the five members of the moribund Senate committee assigned to investigate the malodorous election of John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long Times-Picayune, used strong language in an effort to rouse...
...Attribute your telegram to inexperience or ignorance or both. Therefore I hope the committee will not proceed against you for contempt. But do not offend again...
...Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that could be handed out? . . . The women of Louisiana cannot be frightened off by any such telegram as yours...
...days after the interview appeared, the Press received copies of a telegram from Vines to Prentice. Excerpts: "Terribly upset over such a falsehood. . . . How such statements start is beyond me. ... I have only the highest regard for yourself and your judgment. Please believe...
Resenting the charge of falsehood, the AP last week flung it back in Vines's face with a statement that: 1) Vines had amplified his original remarks, to his teammates and to sports writers in Los Angeles. 2) He sent his telegram of denial immediately following a conference with tennis officials. The AP quoted Sports Editor Carens: "I had a 40-minute talk with Vines and agreed to hold the story until after he was beaten at Los Angeles. As you know, I have 23 years of sports writing experience and I do not misquote athletic celebrities...