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...sent a telegram to Means to let him know of our actions and one to King because we feel he represents the interest and welfare of third world communities in Massachusetts and should be informed of conditions," said Cheng...
...began as a reporter of hard news. An A.P. stringer while at Princeton, he scooped the country by revealing the death of Grover Cleveland in 1908. (A telegram from Mrs. Cleveland, whom he had befriended during an earlier news assignment, alerted him.) Assigned to the White House of Woodrow Wilson, who had taught him at Princeton, Lawrence broke the story of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan's resignation from Wilson's Cabinet. In 1915 he became Washington correspondent for the old New York Evening Post, which soon began sending his daily column to subscribers by telegraph; Lawrence...
...brilliant historian once described the American participation in a controversial war: "In the lives of the American people," she wrote, "it was the end of innocence." The writer is Barbara Tuchman, the book The Zimmermann Telegram, and the event described, the American entry into World War I. The U.S., it would appear, is capable of losing and recovering its innocence not once, but over and over again...
...Cheap. Their crusades can pay off. When Sports Huddle lambasted Richard Nixon for not congratulating the Bruins for winning the 1970 Stanley Cup, 30,000 listeners sent protest letters to the White House. The President responded with a congratulatory telegram and later, while driving in a convertible in Dublin, held up a sign saying BOSTON BRUINS ARE NO. 1. Claiming that the Patriots were "too cheap" to find a decent field-goal kicker, Sports Huddle launched a "Search for Superfoot" among 1,600 English soccer players; the winner, Mike Walker, a Lancashire bricklayer, was not only signed by the Patriots...
...invited to attend the festivities by hopeful editors who were throwing a dinner. They awaited his response and it never seemed to show up, they were beginning to wonder whether they should leave a place for him at the head table. Soon before the dinner he sent a telegram woefully declining the invitation with some gentle advice that serves well today and maybe a good closing note: "I'm sorry that I cannot attend your celebration," Roosevelt wired, "Keep the old sheet flying." Thank you all for coming very much--good night. (applause...