Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inarticulate draft board, the saddest parts of the pother were that Ingersoll had told it he would not permit his employer to ask for his deferment, that Marshall Field's telegram to General Hershey was filed late and out of order, that the board had never been favored with proof of Field's claim that his editor was indispensable. Nonetheless the case was sent up to an Appeal Board, while PM still fulminated...
...thrice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, noted ornament of the New York World's editorial page, has found little peace since the World died, 20 years after the death of Joseph Pulitzer. Kirby found an uneasy job with the World's successor, Roy Howard's World-Telegram...
...collapse he said: "It was utterly unexpected, not only by the public, but by the War Cabinet and even by the general staffs. It was also unexpected by General Auchinleck and the High Command of the Middle East. On the night before its capture we received a telegram from General Auchinleck that the garrison was adequate and the defenses in good order, and that 90 days' supplies were available for the troops...
...Tobruk's fall. For it followed weeks of such cheery headlines as these: Planes pound Axis units in Libya. . . . British in Libya mopping up. . . . Heroic stand at Bir Hachéim foils Rommel. . . . Axis road to Egypt barred. . . . Even two days after Tobruk fell, the New York World-Telegram still bleated: R.A.F. Blasts Nazis in Libya...
Accompanied by a onetime New York World-Telegram reporter, Dorothy Walker, Mrs. Curtiss ranged Iowa in search of the usual. The two Easterners noted that Iowans resent being considered isolationist, that the women apply makeup spottily but have fine complexions, that nearly everyone avoided the word "war" but almost nobody forgot that the war was being fought...