Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-handed, arbitrary, and suggestive of the tactics used by anti-union employers ten years ago." The union also claimed that Cardinal Spellman and the trustees of St. Patrick's had "sought to break the union" by appealing to the workers as individuals in two letters and a telegram. They passed a resolution condemning "the union-busting tactics of any employer, including the Catholic Church when it acts as an employer." To dispose of the Communist implication, they cut loose from the international, and each member swore a solemn oath: "We here as Catholic gentlemen solemnly declare that...
...Washington professor had already resigned because "of the conspicuous violation of the proper processes for deciding issues of freedom and tenure . . ." Forty-six Princeton graduate students sent a telegram to President Raymond B. Allen denouncing the whole affair. A Students' Organization for Academic Rights had sprung up overnight on the Washington campus. Last week, hundreds of students, accompanied by a handful of faculty members, crowded into the University Unitarian Church for a protest meeting...
...made to football manager Frank S. Jones '50, who accepted the award on behalf of the football team and managerial corps, at a "Freedom Parade" program in Carnegie Hall in New York last Sunday night. Jones was confined to Stillman with a virus infection but acknowledged the award by telegram...
...friend of the President. Eddie Jacobson was a World War I buddy of Artilleryman Harry Truman and Truman's partner in the Kansas City haberdashery that went bankrupt after the war. President Truman, who "was spending the holidays in Missouri, had been asked to send a telegram to Eddie, but instead he dropped in unexpectedly at the Muehlebach Hotel for lunch. His old friends were delighted...
...Here a telegram arrives from Paul G. Hoffman ordering Santa's release "on condition he go to Europe and sell ERP deliveries and make some rackets." The FBI man tells Santa: " 'Now you'll do business with the firm of Marshall, Lovett, Draper, Clayton and Hoffman...