Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better." On the 50th anniversary of its first production, Cavalleria Rusticana was produced at the Royal Opera House in Rome. Its composer, Pietro Mascagni, aged 76, not only heard it but wielded the baton while seated...
...Army hotly denied that its telegram to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fortnight ago, notifying him that its objectives had been reached, was a plea for peace. It was nothing more, said Army spokesmen, than an old Chinese custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would...
...voice of John L. Lewis, telling off Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 5). Last week it was John Lewis' turn to hear voices, welling up to him from the floor of the United Mine Workers of America convention in Columbus. Delegate Robert Gould of Fredericktown, Pa. had a telegram from home: ". . . Local Union 688, with a membership of 750, wish to protest the speech of John L. Lewis attacking the Honorable President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party." Local Union 2399 in Richeyville, Pa. similarly instructed its Delegate Elgie Crawford. Delegate E. D. Hosey of Minden, W. Va. announced...
First thing he did was to hire some of the liberal features that Roy Howard's World-Telegram had dropped, including Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, Columnist Heywood Broun, who died after writing one column for the Post. Advertisers, including R. H. Macy & Co., responded by giving George Backer their accounts, upping the Post's linage...
...punish them for insubordination, was overruled by the General Staff. No democrat, but an officer who had been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ as to how he got there. One version says he wore his dress uniform and commandeered a train. Another that he disguised himself...