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...humanitarian grounds, Milton Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Reuther sent Castro a telegram offering to raise funds for his 1,000-prisoner deal "as proof that free men will not desert those who risked all for what they thought was right." The U.S. State Department, which must grant export licenses for any bulldozer ransom payment, said it would give the matter its "most sympathetic consideration...
...that their advertisers' program time will be diminished by 10 seconds, with no reduction in price, gives them fits. "It is our contention that such a move is arbitrary, uncalled for, and a disservice to the American public,"' Young & Rubicam President George Gribbin complained patriotically in a telegram to ABC Head Oliver Treyz. Treyz wired back that the change was, too, in the public interest, because it strengthened the economy of the local station. It will also strengthen ABC's economy through the five stations it owns...
...three other rooms with three different views to express, but he didn't know.) The head of the organization said: "Jacob, we urge you not to do it. You will open the floodgates of hatred." The morning after his historic nomination, the nominee was surprised to receive a telegram from the same Jewish organization, hailing his nomination as a "triumph of the American dream that neither religion nor race is a barrier to public office." The telegram also asked him to endorse the organization's statement that there is no such thing as a "Jewish vote," and that...
Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth was born too late to be a pioneer, but he more than made up for this slip-up on the part of fate. Starting out as a boardinghouse dishwasher at twelve, he ended up as the publisher of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, a multimillionaire in oil, and, by the time he died in 1955, the man most responsible for turning Fort Worth into the city it is. There was so much to Carter's rambunctious, blustering, big-hearted career that one aspect of it tended to be overshadowed: Carter...
They mentioned a telegram posted in the dressing room before the B.C. game on Feb. 13 bidding them to "prove you are of NCAA calibre;" it was signed "Dean Watson." Watson denied yesterday that he had sent the wire and said that he was not sure who would have sent it in his name...