Word: telegram
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last March Charles Henry Koch, Minneapolis taxicab driver, got a telegram from the Navy that his son, Charles Herbert Koch, 20, had been killed March 12 in action at sea. A week later the body arrived. Father Koch, learning that the body had been disfigured, did not look at his son, preferring to remember...
There have been small changes. Multiplied in hundreds of plants, they are invaluable. Last week a telegram for Knudsen ticked in to the War Department's Signal Office. It was from Nash-Kelvinator, now making airplane propellers: "Final production for July exceeded by more than 50% the figure for any previous month. This is a new high, a tribute to 'Knudsen month' inaugurated by your recent visit. Kindest personal regards...
...Your telegram at hand in regard to the death of Nason H. Billings. Sorry to hear but if you will please write me whatever information you can, in regard to it, it will be perfectly confidential. I will be glad to hear...
...Vice Admiral Doenitz went a telegram of congratulation from Germany's top sea lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...
When Kirby left the World-Telegram in 1939, there was only one New York paper where he could feel at home: the liberal, New Dealing Post. The Post is no Croesus. When his contract expired, well-heeled, always well-paid Cartoonist Kirby got a renewal offer from the Post at a very small salary-no more, he said, than the first pay check he drew back in 1911 when his friend, Franklin Pierce (Information Please) Adams got him his first cartoonist's job on the old New York Mail...