Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forcibly or otherwise, from participating in the sale. At Deshler, Ohio, a $400 debt was extinguished last week for $2.15. At Malinta, in the same State, a large noose was ominously suspended from Albert Roehl's barn to scare off outside bidders. Illinois' Governor Horner got a telegram reading "We are face to face with anarchy" from a Monticello mortgage broker who collected $4.90 on a $2,500 claim. At Cherokee, Okla. an attorney for Equitable Life was driven ten miles out of town and dumped from a deputy sheriff's automobile when he started to foreclose...
Fanciers reluctantly admit that, though not so common as in former years, foul play is occasionally employed by ambitious or jealous dog exhibitors. Few years ago one tried to keep a rival from handling her dogs in the judging ring by sending a telegram falsely announcing her son's death...
Last week readers of the enterprising New York World Telegram were given an advance glimpse of the Roosevelt program in the making through an interview with one of its collaborators. A liberal professor of economics at Columbia University, 41-year-old Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell is a member of the "Brain Trust" which helped to steer Mr. Roosevelt through the campaign to the election. Since then Dr. Tugwell has been in constant, confidential communion with the President-elect. Though he spoke only for himself, Dr. Tugwell was presumably giving an authoritative reflection of the Roosevelt mind when he set forth...
...Marion Cleveland Amen reminisced to a New York World-Telegram reporter: "It is possible for a baby to have a normal life in the White House, but it means quite a struggle for the White House mother. . . . My sister Esther [Mrs. W. S. B. Bosanquet of Marton-in-Cleveland, England] really was the White House baby. . . . It was she who was always eating the fancy soap in the baths that were a novelty even in the White House. She was just three when we were leaving. My father saw her all dressed to go and asked why she was going...
Because Poet-Laureate John Masefield's U.S. manager booked him for only one lecture in Canada, the Toronto Telegram headlined: A LION ON A LEASH AND THAT LEASH U.S.A. Newsmen recalled the New York Telegraph's headline upon the occasion that the late Poet-Laureate Robert Bridges refused interviews in the U.S.: KING'S CANARY REFUSES TO CHIRP...