Word: telegrammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Widespread fear of violence at the demonstration last week led New Haven Mayor Bartholomew F. Guida to call for the Guard. Connecticut Governor John Dempsey later sent a telegram to Attorney General Mitchell asking for the federal troops...
...meantime, it is the Florida Democrats who are in the worst bind. They supported Carswell's Supreme Court nomination avidly; now they must oppose him. In a telegram to Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, a leader of the Carswell opposition, Florida Democratic Chairman Pat Thomas reflected their dilemma: "Thanks a lot," said Thomas. "It only hurts when I laugh...
...telegram to Attorney General John Mitchell asking for the troops, Dempsey said that "the possibility for domestic violence in New Haven. . . is and remains great." The telegram added that "the violence could escalate beyond our capacity to contain...
Died. Frederick E. Woltman, 64, veteran Scripps-Howard newspaper reporter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. In 1931, Woltman's reporting on a real estate mortgage-bond racket in New York City won a Pulitzer for the New York World-Telegram, but he is best remembered for his Pulitzer prizewinning series in 1946 uncovering Communist infiltration into unions, during which he exposed Gerhart Eisler as the Kremlin's principal agent...
Scott has never had much of a problem keeping his head out of the sand. When lobbying, manipulating and advertising for an Oscar reached fever pitch back in the early '60s, Scott sent a telegram to the Academy withdrawing his name from the nominations. His portrait of Bert Gordon, the ulcerous, vulpine gambler in The Hustler, is one of the modern screen's great essays in villainy, but not surprisingly, Scott failed to receive the Oscar...