Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Cassandra of the Daily Mirror: "If our own military position does not permit of an assault on any single part of Hitler's 2,000-mile western front, then Russian hopes should not have been raised by the joint telegram from President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. . . . Five hundred hours ago! France crumbled in less time than that. Five hundred hours! Plenty of time to lose hope. Plenty of time in which...
...remarkable record for putting his projects across in a big way. At 19, Silliman Evans became managing editor of a temperance sheet, later worked for fabulous Texas Publisher Amon Carter. (He was called "the alltime, all-American Diesel engine of Texas reporting.") In Washington, D.C., as Star-Telegram bureau chief, Evans played shrewd poker and shrewder politics with such admiring pals as Jack Garner, Jesse Jones, Jim Farley (who rewarded him with a Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalship for helping swing the Garner delegates to Roosevelt in the 1932 convention...
...From the files of General Henri Fernand Dentz, former Vichy commander in Syria who was sent home last week, the British took telegrams which proved beyond question that Vichy had collaborated with the German Army. One telegram, signed by Minister of War General Charles Huntziger, read...
...second telegram (unsigned) read: "If German or Italian planes fly over Levant, please refrain from any reply. If any of these planes alight on your fields, receive them and ask instructions. British planes must be attacked at any cost...
...members of President Buchanan's Cabinet. One day around Christmas, the President was startled by a hubbub in the hall. He asked arch-Southerner Mrs. Roger Pryor (Reminiscences of War & Peace) "whether the house were on fire." She explained that "the shouts were those of rejoicing over a telegram announcing the secession of South Carolina." "That evening, Southern leaders, after celebrating in the parlor of Senator Jefferson Davis," went to call on Buchanan. Mrs. Davis rushed "impetuously ahead to share the good news with the President...