Word: telegrams
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...thousand Girl Scouts of Kickapoo Council salute you," said the telegram, "pledging their continued services in the efforts of their city beautiful." The American Institute of Park Executives broke down and gave her the first honorary membership ever to go to a woman, and only the fourth in its 67-year history. Bannered the conservative Chicago Tribune: HER NAME is CLAUDIA, AND BEAUTY...
...minute before 3 a.m. - the deadline - he interrupted a scorching, anti-Indian diatribe, plucked from the stack of papers before him a telegram from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "In the interests of inter national peace ... I have issued the following order to the Pakistani armed forces: they will stop fighting as from 1205 hours West Pakistan time today...
Neither was most of the competition. When the nine other newspaper unions refused to cross the Guild picket line, the papers belonging to the New York Publishers Association-the Her-a'd Tribune, Daily News, Journal-American, World-Telegram, Long Island Daily Press and Star-Journal-shut down too. Of the city's major dailies, only the New York Post, which does not belong to the association, was still on newsstands-a situation that served as an ominous reminder of 1962's 114-day newspaper strike, which crippled the city's papers and helped send...
Worried by well-founded rumors of an imminent merger of the World-Telegram and Journal-American that might put 600 Guild members out of work, Murphy also wants a pledge from the Times that it will hire some of his displaced Guildsmen. And he wants management to guarantee that no Guildsman will lose his job except by attrition: by quitting or retiring. The Times has given such a guarantee to the I.T.U., but is willing to give it only to those Guild members hired as full-time employees before March 31, 1965, the date of expiration of the last contract...
...defense, Yorty charges that the Federal Government bears a major share of the responsibility for stirring the emotions of Los Angeles Negroes to fever pitch. In a telegram that he fired off to Washington last week, Yorty declared that "one of the riot-inciting factors was the deliberate and well-publicized cutting off of poverty funds to this city," demanded that Shriver "process our programs and release our funds while we reorganize." The mayor also accused California Governor Edmund G. Brown of trying to make political hay by appointing a commission to look into the riots' causes...