Word: cablegrams
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...Handsome Rexford Guy Tugwell has had his troubles since he became Governor of Puerto Rico last September. In Washington last month he was denounced as "an American-quisling" by Commissioner Pagan (TIME, Feb. 2). Result was the foregoing cablegram...
Last-punched CBS's canny News Chief Paul White: "If your cablegram implies that you feel a correspondent has no right to inform his home office of his working conditions, then it is obvious that a correspondent does not have sufficient freedom of speech to enable him to work intelligently...
Miss Lee, who is the wife of RKO Director Robert Stevenson, thought she had retired from the cinema when Milestone saw her in a British picture and cabled London to get her for Caroline. London told him to see Stevenson in Hollywood. He did. Milestone: "This cablegram says you know something about a woman named Anna Lee. I think she's what we want for my picture. Where is she?" Stevenson: "About four feet away from you. You have your back...
According to the cablegram, the real purpose of the president's visit is to "enhance the effectiveness of his propaganda when he returns." It further states that his trip means to Harvard students "the turning over of many of our educational facilities to the 'defense' program and the propagandist distortion in our courses...
...cablegram advises the English students not to accept Conant's visit as a scientific mission. Rather it is a "visitation of American imperialism," and means a stronger government for England and the emphasis of war aims over the needs of the people. Claiming that Conant's visit is not in the interests of science because he has not worked in science for six years, the cable says that his trip means the sinking of American educational institutions into the warlike aims of the government...