Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three courses: either the team would voluntarily bench the colored player, or Navy would forfeit the game if Harvard insisted on his playing, or Willson would call up Harvard's officials and let them make the decision. The last alternative was taken, and a few hours later a telegram came requesting the negro not to play...
Said he to a World-Telegram interviewer, week before the Met closed...
Sympathizing with the workers in the Bethlehem Steel Strike, the Harvard Liberal Union's executive council sent a telegram last night to the District Director of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee congratulating the strikers for making just demands to remedy unfair labor practices on the part of the company. The Liberal Union has fully supported the national defense program, but resents the use of troopers to break up what it considers a perfectly justifiable strike...
...mutual mistrust soured their employe relations. A Seattle Guild strike heavily sapped circulation and advertising; they had to pay seven months' back wages besides. Fumbling editorial policy cost still more heavily. In order to pay the installments due Sanders, they had to sell two profitmakers, the Portland News-Telegram and the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune...
Died. Pitts Sanborn, 61, music critic for the New York World-Telegram and dean of Manhattan music reviewers, program annotator for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, author of two novels and many books on music, radio commentator and authority on opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...