Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Premier Calinescu of Rumania received a heart-warming telegram, praising him for a "noble gesture." What Premier Calinescu had done was to lift a ban on a Rumanian religious minority -250,000 Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and others. Rumanian Baptists sent the telegram of gratitude to Premier Calinescu, promptly resumed worship in their 1,500 little chapels and meeting houses...
...statement from Wolff came as a telegram suggesting that the CRIMSON consider the "herding' practice of some schools. Simultaneously Cramer gave the following defense to the Metropolitan papers anonymously...
...cooperated in the research which produced it-Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Monsanto Chemical, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass. Announced cost: $6,000.000. Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald, an old motormaker (Moons) but a notably inexpert motorist, made a speech. A congratulatory telegram arrived from Franklin Roosevelt...
...fair sample of Bernays' skill was his promotion of a new "high fidelity" radio for Philco Radio & Television Corp. several years ago. Bernays hired Pitts Sanborn, music critic of the New York World-Telegram, to write several hundred "leaders in the world of music" asking if they did not agree that it was time a better radio was produced. Those that replied naturally said yes. Bernays then got up a booklet full of apt quotes from their letters, sent it (over Pitts Sanborn's signature) to newspaper editors with a letter pointing out that musical leaders were demanding...
Thus the campaign was completed, all but the mopping up operations. On Thursday morning Chancellor Hitler announced receipt of a telegram from Dr. Jozef Tiso, for two days stooge President of newly "independent" Slovakia. "In supreme confidence in you," it said, ". . . the Slovak State places itself under your protection." With equally supreme confidence in himself, Adolf Hitler swallowed Slovakia whole. Now Germany had a common border with Carpatho-Ukraine, which Hungary announced she was annexing...