Word: telegrammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opinion it would be regretable if the Kennedy museum and library were not located in close proximity to the J.F.K. Kennedy School of Government." Silber said in a telegram to Smith. "Either of the proposed locations would give easy access to cambridge over the Boston University Bridge," he said...
...Georg Solti is playing my Variations for Orchestra with the Chicago Symphony. He decides to invite me, all expenses paid, to attend the concert. When does the telegram arrive? On the day of the concert. He is in Chicago; I am in New York, with classes to teach. What...
Died. Sterling North, 68, novelist and critic; after a series of strokes; in Whippany, N.J. North worked from 1932 to 1956 as literary editor of the Chicago Daily News, the New York Post and the New York World-Telegram & Sun, turning out a book a year as well...
...price increases on his brand-new Administration last August, President Ford issued a statement that he was "very disappointed" at the news and doubtful that the price hikes were justified. As it happened, the Wage and Price Council had already taken it upon itself to fire off a telegram to U.S. Steel's New York headquarters asking the company to explain the increases. Three days later, a covey of U.S. Steel executives led by Board Chairman Edgar B. Speer arrived in Washington. Although U.S. Steel had raised prices by 23% earlier this year, the officials insisted that...
...spent seven months as an unhappy president of a Manhattan brokerage firm in 1969 and insists that except for Nixon, Wall Street was "a far more ruthless world than anything I have known in politics. I saw men who had been with a company for decades fired by telegram, just like that, without warning or sympathy. You don't often see people treated that way in politics...