Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week the gossip was at least partially confirmed-but not by one of the papers' own reporters. It came from Gabe Pressman, a ubiquitous newsman for NBC television. Pressman reported "top secret negotiations" involving a merger of the morning Herald Tribune and the two afternoon papers, the World-Telegram and Sun and the Journal-American...
...members, said Brown, were violating their contract with the Sun by refusing to cross the picket line. "The Newspaper Guild," he complained in a telegram to his Baltimore local, "has taken an uncompromising position in its negotiations with management," a surprising comment from the boss of a union whose New York local had pre cipitated a 114-day New York news paper strike two years ago that helped kill one paper. "Members of Baltimore Typographical Union," Brown went on to say, "owe their first loyalty to the ITU. Any member returning to work under the current contract would be upholding...
Brown followed up his telegram by demanding that the printers turn in their "travel cards," which permit them to take jobs outside the city when on strike. Those who refused to do so, he implied, would lose their seniority. To date, about 100 out of 380 printers in the Sun unit have drifted back to work...
...rising tide of public shame and private anger at the moral outrages to which our Government has committed our country." That proved to be more than Fellow Academician Thomas Hart Benton, 76, the rugged Missouri muralist, could swallow. He stormed from the rostrum, fired off a telegram promising to resign from the Academy unless it "publicly repudiates your views...
...article in Time had given Fitzgerald's benefactors the impression that the professor could tether a cow in the Yard. But in a telegram to the students, Fitzgerald explained...