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...Parker’s prompting, Galbraith sent the audience into howls by repeating a line from a telegram he sent Kennedy, who was also a Crimson editor, protesting an attempt on the part of the State Department to have his communications with the president channeled through them...
...USPS board of governors and US policy makers must realize that the USPS monopoly on personal mail delivery is gone. To prevent personal mail from following Pony Express and Western Union Telegram into oblivion, these decision makers must use this moment of transformation to initiate a U.S. government funded, free personal letter and postcard delivery service.When they do, I’ll send them a letter of congratulation right away—without wasting time finding a stamp...
Next Sunday, as big as life, there it was in the Herald Tribune. They called me the following week and asked me to do another drawing. I didn't take it seriously, you know. This went on for about a year and a half. Then I got a telegram from the Times...
...poetry and prose woven intricately into story form. DIED. GERHART RIEGNER, 90, the honorary vice president and former Secretary-General of the World Jewish Congress, remembered for cabling the U.S. Vice Consul in Geneva with the first authoritative warning of the Nazi holocaust; in Geneva. The Aug. 8, 1942 telegram described Hitler's intent to deport and exterminate four million Jews in Eastern Europe, however, at the time, the U.S. was unable to verify Riegner's allegations. RESIGNED. PAT ROBERTSON, 71, as president of the Christian Coalition, a staunchly conservative political group he founded in 1989 a year after...
...that at no point in this book does Morris introduce himself into a subplot of the action. On the mid-September day in 1901 when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots to uncouple Panama from Colombia--so that the U.S. could have a freer hand to build its great canal across the isthmus--Morris is not bending to the presidential lunch table to serve the soup and listen in. When T.R. holds forth at some White House reception...