Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Furthermore, they were mortified by a frank Holmes telegram to President Roosevelt demanding Governmental intervention and suppression of racketeering. The directors remonstrated. President Holmes said he would run the company as he saw fit, directors or no directors. Day before the annual meeting Jack Lapham marched into Mr. Holmes's office: "Mr. Holmes, we don't like your policies and we don't like what you are doing. We have arranged that I shall be chairman of the board and you president-we to share equally all responsibilities. . . . There is dissension in the ranks...
...good plan not to make more of a damn fool of yourself than God Almighty intended," was the advice with which, quoting a telegram sent to the late President Theodore Roosevelt by the late Dean N. S. Shaler, the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88 opened his address to the Freshmen in the Union last night. Mr. Adams was introduced by Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, following the buffet supper. The other speakers were A. C. Hanford, Dean of the College and the Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry...
...Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem, he has written a grown-up novel about Negroes of the Old South. Grammy (full name: Telegram) knew that his daddy, Messenger, and his mother, Crimp, were superior slaves. He could not figure out why their master should have sent them from New Orleans way up to his plantation on the Red River-especially since Messenger was such a wonderful coachman and Crimp such a good cook...
...General Hughjo" in honor of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson On his 85th birthday, August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool, suddenly collapsed on its edge. Revived, he was taken...
...Bogota. Colombia last week, in the midst of a Senate debate on state relief for large families, a Senator uprose to read a telegram just received announcing the birth of seven children, all boys, all living, to Carola and Luis Perez of San Pedro. Some U.S. newsreaders would have been more impressed if they had not just scanned Dr. Palmer Findley's The Story of Childbirth, published last fortnight.* Therein appears a picture of the medieval Italian, Dorothea, her monstrous abdomen supported by a neck-swung hoop, who gave birth to nine babies in her first pregnancy, eleven...