Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring telegram not only brought a sharp retort from the Swedish editor, but caused the first open squabble in the polyglot Fascist-Nationalist Cabinet. To Chancellor Hitler, Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath loudly insisted that Hermann Göring must be prevented from sticking his pugnacious nose into foreign affairs...
...Manhattan morning newspaper died last week. It was The New York Repository ("An Independent Newspaper") published by Scripps-Howard since Feb. 27, 1931-the date when dynamic little Roy Howard bought Pulitzer's Worlds, junked the morning World, merged the evening paper with the Telegram...
...Worlds each held a membership in Associated Press. The evening membership came in handy for the World-Telegram. The morning membership, valued by the late World at $500,000. would have lapsed automatically unless utilized. Hence Scripps-Howard published the Repository, sold at least one copy daily. It was a four-page sheet consisting chiefly of house advertisements, with one page of news, always including at least one story from the AP night wire. The same editorial was left standing for about a year, then was replaced by comics, fashion sketches. Total cost to Scripps-Howard, including the annual...
...York World-Telegram's "All-American Radio Team," 127 radio editors in the U. S. and Canada last week chose...
...Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...