Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being a "Red." He wasn't; he had written an article in the American Mercury attacking police brutality in a coal strike, and the Governor did not like it. Roy Howard did. He hired Woltman to do his crusading as a reporter on the New York World-Telegram...
...still a crusader, but nobody would call him a Red. Last month he won a Pulitzer Prize for his exposures of U.S. Communists. Unlike many reporters working the same rich field, Woltman usually has facts, not innuendoes, to write about. Last week, on its front page, the World-Telegram bannered the kind of article Freddy Woltman likes to write, and Roy Howard likes to run. The headline...
Only after the morning papers reached Danville at 6 o'clock last night could Professor Mason get a full picture of his new responsibility. A Sunday telegram from President Truman had been dispatched to his Littauer Office, but his secretary could not get the news to him throughout yesterday...
With the first sentence of his first script, Hollenbeck started ragging the rags, especially the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, the arch-conservative Sun and Hearst's Journal-American for "the great ink-letting which resulted from the disclosure that a number of New York City families on relief had been housed in hotels...
Most people in St. Louis had no afternoon papers one day last week because the men who print them didn't like one of the news stories. George L. Berry, president of the A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union...