Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third strike and out on Mr. Taylor-the Catholic Church's tacit participation in the spoils of Fascist victory-last week became a distinct possibility. To Il Duce went a telegram from 30 Italian Bishops, urging him to crown "the unfailing victory of our Army" by planting the Italian flag over Jerusalem. In England, the Manchester Guardian reported that the Axis powers plan to turn Palestine over to the jurisdiction of the Vatican and transport Palestine's Jewish population to Ethiopia...
...Democrat for many years, a Republican by choice, he seems to us to be heaven's gift. . . ." The Philadelphia Public Ledger had just plumped for Willkie; since June 19, Roy Howard's 18 papers had been thunderously thumping. At mid-convention, his bellwether New York World-Telegram had three of its four featured columnists (Clapper, Johnson, Westbrook Pegler) firing for Willkie. To many a G. O. P. delegate-overwhelmed with Willkie wordage-it must have seemed last week that the press indeed had nominated Wendell Willkie...
...sent a telegram to the War Department, asking authority to organize an anti-aircraft regiment in Detroit...
...Interior Ignacio Garcia Téllez called a meeting of Mexican publishers and editors to inform them that Mexico's foreign policy was strictly pro-Allies, pro-U. S. To emphasize publicly that his sympathies were with the democracies, President General Lázaro Cardenas sent a telegram to France's President Albert Lebrun expressing the "painful impression" created by the Italian declaration...
From the university's number one alumnus, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 came a telegram to Langdon P. Marvin '98, chairman of the executive committee, expressing his regrets and a wish that "you all will have a wonderful time...