Word: telegramming
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...force detective, went into the private-eye business on his own in 1850. Later he organized a kind of CIA for Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton unearthed one assassination plot against Lincoln, spirited the President-elect to Washington for his first inaugural by a circuitous rail route that produced a famous telegram: PLUMS [Pinkerton] ARRIVED WITH NUTS [Lincoln] THIS MORNING. Plums and his men acted as Union spies during the Civil War, set up the Secret Service, spent the postwar years chasing such outlaws as the Reno Boys and the James Brothers. About the only tarnished spot on the Pinks' badge...
NEED MERCHANDISE DESPERATELY read the urgent telegram. The West Coast's Joseph Magnin Co. was about to open "News Stand" boutiques carrying paper dresses in its 28 stores; informal sales had proved so successful that the chain was nervously awaiting an onslaught of customers. The same happy nervousness is now sweeping other stores across the nation. Paper clothing, apparently, is here to stay...
...left. Today, the Times Mirror is one of the nation's largest publishers of paperback books; it also puts out Bibles and dictionaries, art and medical books, airline flight manuals, slide rules and even service-station road maps. It publishes the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and Evening Telegram and, south of Los Angeles, the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. According to Times Mirror President Albert Casey, it is the company's ambition to double its earnings in the next five years. In 1966, they stood...
...years ago, after the House crew had won an initial victory at Henley, the oarsmen received a telegram from the Master: "Hurra for brilliant prothetic start." Like a gracious Alfred Hitchcock, Finley plays a cameo role in every House Christmas' production. He always concludes the evening's festivities with a ritualistic invocation: Floreat domus de Eliot...
...into the Boston Crafts Manitenance Council and to have the Council perform all bargaining functions. The Council, therefore, expected the University to recognize it as the agent for the old BGMA membership. But, a short time before the election John W. Teele, director of Harvard personnel, had received a telegram from Eddy Sullivan declaring that the BSEIU was the bargaining agent for the BGMA membership because of the authorization cards. After negotiating all summer and fall with Richardson and the BGMA staff; the University was unable to determine just who was unable to determine just who was representing whom...