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...General Marshall, on his mission to China, radioed the President in 1946, urging that Wedemeyer be made ambassador to China. But later in Washington, Acheson, then Under Secretary of State, showed Wedemeyer a telegram saying that the news had leaked out in China and the "Communists are protesting violently." "Acheson said, 'I'm sorry about this, Wedemeyer,' and I told the Secretary, 'Well, I'm not-[but] I don't think that the Communists should determine who should be appointed by our Government.' " He had already bought an "ambassadorial trousseau to the tune...
...should have been shot a hundred times by Bolshevik standards," Sorokin says; "the chances of flight were about a hundred to one against me." The Communists, nevertheless, let him escape, but soon regretted their leniency. Immediately after leaving Russia, Sorokin received a telegram from his wife. It read: "Grandmother was very sorry she didn't give you the last blessings." Grandmother was the Secret Police...
Thesaurus. In Charleston, W.Va., after consulting the rule book, Western Union told Mrs. A. W. Hawkins Jr. that she must use no such insulting word as "moron" in her telegram, accepted the wire when she substituted "witling...
...face of these snowballing attacks, the school board began to weaken in its support of Superintendent Goslin. Finally, while he was in Manhattan to attend a national school meeting, it sent him a telegram asking him to resign. With that, the pro-Goslin forces sprang into action, but it was too late. The board insisted that Goslin must go. "He didn't have the right rapproach," explained one member. "That's the word, 'rapproach' to the grassroots problem...
When Barbara Joiner Parsons was made a general partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm of Jacquin, Stanley & Co., she received a telegram from the Ziegfeld Club: "Darling, Congratulations." Barbara is an ex-dancer in the Follies, and the first Ziegfeld girl to reach such starry heights on the Street. Only about 50 women are general partners on Wall Street. Texas-born Barbara Parsons got into the Follies of 1018, pranced and kicked. alongside such stars as Marilyn Miller and Eddie Cantor. After leaving the Follies she took some business courses, got a job selling a financial letter...