Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London falcon-eyed King Feisal promptly cabled: "Although everything is normal now in Irak, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety. Inform the British Government of the contents of my telegram...
...telegram was sent by Vithalbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, onetime President of India's Legislative Assembly and elder brother to Vallabhai. Vithalbhai was on a lecture tour to the U. S. last winter...
...They were ruled out of court fortnight ago on the grounds that the prisoners had not retained them. So high ran mob feeling against the lawyers that it took a troop of guardsmen to get them out of Alabama alive. The International Labor Defense last week made public a telegram sent to Governor Miller, holding Judge Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Shamblin directly responsible for the lynching, said they could prove that the mob had been incited by officials...
...Rumsey thought Professor Ogburn was too inclined to favor Industry. Professor Ogburn thought Mrs. Rumsey's anti-profiteering plans were too spectacular. After fruitless weeks of bickering, Mrs. Rumsey went to General Johnson, asked to have Professor Ogburn removed from the board. In Chicago the economist got a telegram telling him he had been transferred to another job which later turned out to be nonexistent. He raced back to Washington to fight for his old position, decided to resign instead. He bitterly complained of Mrs. Rumsey's amateur methods and personnel, obliquely flayed the appointment of Mrs. Johnson...
...Hillsboro, Ohio: the 500-target amateur trapshooting championship of the world, with 497 breaks (including an unfinished run of 326) to 494 for Walter S. Beaver of Berwyn, Pa.; at Yorklyn, Del. ¶ Jack Hagen, Long Island golf professional (no kin): a prize in the N. Y. World-Telegram's hole-in-one competition when, first to play among more than 400 entrants, he plunked his third try (out of five allowed) into the hole (148 yd.) on the fly. The hole used was on his home Salisbury Country Club links. ¶ Red-headed Donald Budge, 17, of Oakland...