Word: telegramming
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...Said the New York World-Telegram, in an editorial syndicated to the 18 other Scripps-Howard papers: "De Gaullists have stooped to anti-American propaganda of a kind dear to the heart of Hitler. . . . If this keeps up, the United States must curtail its plan to arm 400,000 French forces...
Salesman Sellman. In Texarkana, Ark., Messenger Billy Sellman waved his way with a telegram through a crowd blocking the entrance to a shoe store, handed the owner a message: "Please, sir, I would like to get a new pair of shoes, [signed] Billy Sellman...
Broadway's threatened manpower shortage never became acute-even among chorus boys. But the theater lost several first-string critics to the war (the Times's Brooks Atkinson, Herald Tribune's Richard Watts Jr., World-Telegram's John Mason Brown, Sun's Richard Lockridge...
...Akron rubber workers, striking because a pay raise of 8? an hour recommended by a WLB panel had been reduced by the Board itself to 3?. President Roosevelt sent a stern telegram which damned the strike as "inexcusable," curtly ordered: "Return to work at once." The strikers went back. They had lost in five days enough time to have produced some $17,000,000 worth of plane deicers, self-sealing gas tanks, combat tires, life rafts, anti-aircraft guns, gas masks. They still demanded...
...Postal, through an exchange of stock. Now all that needs to be done to make the merger a fact is for stockholders and a brace of regulatory bodies, including the Federal Communications Commission, to approve the specific deal. By next fall anyone who wants to send a telegram will almost certainly have to ask for Western Union...