Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unprecedented action was taken by the Student Council last night, when it was unanimously voted to send a telegram to Washington expressing the opposition of Harvard students to a Senate amendment requiring a year's training before overseas action. The telegram was addressed to Congressman Andrew May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee...
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...Bennett's election. But Republican Dewey still led in the straw polls, Democrat Bennett was a poor second; and the American Labor Party, formerly a boon to the New Deal, was running a candidate of its own. So, last week Franklin Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett but meant for the ears of the American Labor Party: "To suggest that my support of you is formal and lukewarm is an untruth. . . . You are without any question the best qualified of all the candidates for the governorship. . . . There are no strings to this endorsement...
...dishonorable discharge (1933) in his pocket, squatting under an umbrella in the halls of Congress; the heading said: "Tenting on the old Camp Ground!" (see cut, p. 23). He pointedly reminded Americans of their "noble experiment." To jar further the memories of the forgetful, the New York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed Mrs. De King, 35, and clubbed her husband into unconsciousness. . . . The raiders pointed to a half-gallon of wine found...
...Stimson's telegram and statement gave Army officers public notice of what some of them had already been told: that they were not to discuss Army-Navy relations in any way, anywhere, with anybody. That Army-Navy relations had reached a stage of noncooperation requiring such orders was an unhappy fact which Mr. Stimson had now officially written into the record...