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Toward midnight the lights still burned in California's state capitol in Sacramento. Cecil Poole, clemency secretary to Governor Edmund Brown, rummaged through the bales of telegrams that flooded the executive offices. MY DAUGHTERS WILL NOT BE SAFE UNTIL HE IS DEAD, read one. DON'T BE SWAYED BY ALL THE BLEEDING HEARTS, declared another. Then Poole picked up another telegram, read it and reached for the phone. A few minutes later, he carried the wire into the executive mansion and showed it to Governor "Pat" Brown. It was signed by Roy Rubottom Jr., Assistant Secretary of State...
...days, declaimed at visitors and friends about his problem. His assistant attorney general, Richard Rogan, even called Director George V. Allen of the U.S. Information Agency in Washington to hint strongly that the Governor would like an official request for clemency; Allen refused. But Roy Rubottom's telegram last week resolved the Governor's doubts...
...Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power to save me." When Ma finally fled to Hong Kong shortly before Chiang's fall in 1949, it was Chou who sent a telegram inviting him to join the new Communist regime in Peking...
...Tangle Towners now threatened a riot, so the Library peaple retreated: they set up a special department, which solved the puzzles and posted them at a desk in Central Circulation (this fact was reported in the World-Telegram, not the Tribune.. Three times as many people flocked to check their independently obtained solutions with the Library's version. Librarians reflected that maybe some of these untanglers might find that they liked libraries, and might return some...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 19--The proposed third major league, the Continental, does not plan to operate in 1960. When it does function it will pay reasonable compensation for territorial rights, President Branch Rickey of the proposed loop assured minor league chief George M. Trautman today following a remonstrative telegram from the latter...