Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read with interest the telegram entitled "Synthetic Peat" [TIME, Dec. 16]. . . . Like your correspondent, Mr. Norman Reilly Raine, I think the time has come when the Irish should be willing to say to England that their ports may be used by the English. What chance would Ireland have with Germany if England is conquered, should she be conquered? Not the slightest...
...tain sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler, who interrupted his trip. Then communications between Vichy and the outside world were severed for 24 hours...
Treasurer Kendrick tried again on two more days, got nothing but a few more fry-sized nibbles. An inquiry came from a Texan who said, "I love lawsuits," admitted he knew nothing about molybdenum. From Grand Junction, Colo, came a telegram bidding $15, from Manhattan one offering $100. A postcard bid from Utica, N. Y. forgot to mention any figure at all. Kendrick gave up, turned the tax-sale certificate over to the county. The county-Climax tax squabble was back where it started...
...week discharged a Christian duty apropos of Christmas. In Vatican City courtiers close to the Apostolic Throne remarked sadly that there has been fighting on the last six Christmas Days - in Ethiopia, Spain and Europe, not to mention the Far East.* But the Pope did not send a circular telegram to Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and other heads of warring States. He issued a motu proprio or letter of instruction to Roman Catholic Bishops...
...entertained the Germans at a dinner and reception at the Soviet Embassy. Having listened for two full days and publicly committed himself to nothing, Comrade Molotov next day took a train back to Russia to report to his boss man. At the border he sent a bread-&-butter telegram to Hitler...