Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Industrial Palace stood a cordon of Czech security police carrying Tommy guns. Inside, 1,000 delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Czech Communist Party met. Joseph Stalin was named "honorary chairman" of the meeting; his representative, Cominform Boss Georgy Malenkov, attended in his stead. The congress sent a telegram to "Dear Comrade Stalin": "We shall always stand faithfully by the side of the U.S.S.R...
...have raised eyebrows and blood pressure among sport-writers. The late Lloyd Lewis blasted the Lincoln story in a sports page editorial in the Chicago Daily News; the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith devoted a column to Stern fancies. Some editors, like the New York World-Telegram's Joe Williams, feel that Sports Newsreel is a misnomer. To Stern, the point is scarcely worth arguing. "It isn't a sports show, it's entertainment for the same kind of people who listen to Jack Benny," he says, then adds defensively: "If there...
...before the scheduled strike, on May 19, faculty advisors to the A.V.C. and the Progressive Coalition Party resigned. The administration said that the A.V.C. advisor resigned "In protest against A.V.C.'s support of stoppage." But in a telegram to the Board of Higher Education, the local Teachers Union charged that these men "were called before the Dean of Students and requested to resign, thus preventing the existence of these clubs on campus, though no specific charges against the conduct of these clubs have been levelled...
...telegram to the CRIMSON, Harmos Caldwell, Chancellor of the university, stated that the college dean had recommended that Barfoot's contract "not be renewed on the ground that he had only a bachelor's degree and was making no serious effort to go forward with his graduate work and secure higher degrees...
Immigration wanted more information on the stowaway. It got a hair-raising reply: "Re telegram 10th. Stowaway Gerhart Eisler, German, disembarking Gdynia." Was it the Gerhart Eisler-the chubby little Comintern agent who had been called the No. 1 U.S. Communist...