Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monopoly on Merit. "This town can't support seven newspapers," says New York Newspaper Broker Vincent J. Manno. "If you added all seven together, you wouldn't come out with a net profit of $2,000,000 a year." To Scripps-Howard's Roy Howard (World-Telegram & Sun) and William Randolph Hearst Jr. (Journal-American, Mirror), the cost of keeping their papers going is worth it just for having New York as a prestige outlet for their chains...
This newspaper ad, printed a month ago in the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...
...reluctantly was facing up to the new facts of Korean life. U.S. General Carter Magruder last week took U.S. troops in Korea off "green alert," announced he would cooperate with the new regime. President Kennedy formally recognized the new government's existence in a terse two-sentence telegram to "Prime Minister" Chang thanking the general for a birthday message-but making no mention of the invitation to visit the U.S. that Chang hankers...
...completed only "at the cost of increasing the power of the tyrant." Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams introduced a bill that would make the proposed swap a federal offense, punishable by $5,000 fine, three years in prison. Wrote an indignant reader of the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "I have been sick to my stomach with shame...
...parochial schools. The resolution opposed grants, loans, tax support or any other direct Government assistance to private education. Yet one of the heroes of the convention was the Catholic politician whom last year's convention had officially opposed for U.S. President. The messengers voted unanimously to send a telegram to President Kennedy expressing appreciation of his stand against aid to parochial schools and for the separation of church and state. Wisecrack of the day: "Jack Kennedy is making a pretty good Baptist President...