Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjectives available to TIME industrious is the most inept in describing Alton Cook, radio editor of the New York World-Telegram. I know because he shared my apartment for many years and he is the laziest man who ever left a bed unmade and dishes in the sink from Friday to Friday, the day of the slavey's weekly visitation...
Wang Ching-wei, prospective head of the "all-the-People" puppet Government of China, a Japanese tool with combined Japanese Army-Government approval freshly stamped on his forehead, sent a wordy telegram to the Generalissimo. He proposed discussions "with a view toward securing nationwide peace on a basis of honor and justice and to facilitate the solution of such problems as the total withdrawal of Japanese troops from China. ... I am sending this message from my inner heart." Terms of the pact: Chinese recognition of Manchukuo; North China and Mongolia to be a "special zone for defense and economic development...
Last week, not in Bengal but in Edinburgh, Sir John was under fire again. He rose to speak at a city corporation luncheon. As he warned his hearers that the war had really not yet begun, he was handed a telegram: URGENT. WOMEN IN EDINBURGH WANT PEACE. Sir John cleared his throat, went on to say that Germany would be a cruel enemy. Another telegram arrived: URGENT. WOMEN IN EDINBURGH WANT PEACE. Sir John took a sip of water, and said in a firm voice that there must be no letdown in defensive precautions. Then came another telegram, identical. They...
...Ingersoll's plans, it will carry no advertising for at least two years but will run, as news, a digest of advertisements carried on other Manhattan papers. Managing editor of the paper will be burly, apoplectic George Harry Lyon, onetime city editor of the New York World-Telegram (1929-33), editor of the Buffalo Times until it folded last July. Editor of his own paper will be Ralph McAllister Ingersoll...
...radio editors, listening to the radio is a business. A few radio programs and performers sometimes make that business a pleasure. Since 1932 the New York World-Telegram has annually polled radio editors in the U. S. and Canada to find out whom & what they found most pleasurable on the air. Last Saturday, World-Telegram's, industrious Radio Editor Alton Cook scored up the 1939 consensus of about a hundred other radio editors...