Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With perverse taste and awkward haste, some newspapers last week tried to write off the appalling election performance of the U.S. press as an amusing little joke. The Washington Post sent a can't-we-be-friends telegram to President Truman: YOU ARE HEREBY INVITED TO A "CROW BANQUET" TO WHICH THIS NEWSPAPER PROPOSES TO INVITE NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL WRITERS, POLITICAL REPORTERS AND EDITORS, INCLUDING OUR OWN, ALONG WITH POLLSTERS, RADIO COMMENTATORS AND COLUMNISTS . . . MAIN COURSE WILL CONSIST OF BREAST OF TOUGH OLD CROW EN GLACE. (YOU WILL EAT TURKEY.) . . . DRESS FOR GUEST OF HONOR, WHITE TIE. FOR OTHERS -SACK...
...When the long night was over, all but a few red-eyed newsmen were red-faced too. The New York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife is a Democratic...
...Peoria Journal, quoting a telegram from Dr. Gallup ("This is the kind of a close election that happens once in a generation"), retorted: ". . . The Gallup poll, had it been properly evaluated, should have told us it was going to be such an election." It canceled its contract to run the Gallup poll; so did the Nashville Tennessean, the St. Louis Globe Democrat and others...
...Labor did it," the President is reported to have said in the first flush of triumph. The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in proclaiming victory just before the Dewey telegram, opened his statement by acknowledging that the largest share in the results belonged to organized labor. While a more detached view will reveal that other factors were operative in producing the upset, labor leaders did work hard in the campaign and will not be bashful in claiming credit...
...shall not bow to the whims of Boston censorship," the Club decided. Quoting a review in the New York World Telegram, the Club announced, "A aphitryon is only 'politely ribald...