Word: telegramming
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...worked on an autobiography, but only recently did her busy husband, now in the U.S., find time to read it. Two days before the book was due to go on sale last week, more than 6,000 booksellers and critics who already had copies got a hurried telegram from Dial Press: "Publication suspended...
...Communist campaign progressed nicely until last week, when the B.O.M. Club suddenly gave the New York World-Telegram the club's-eye view of the gang-up. The club revealed, for instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...
Press agentry in the democracies has perhaps passed its peak. The release in June 1942 of certain important news of Pacific air and sea fighting in the form of a commercial plug-a congratulatory telegram from General Arnold to an aircraft manufacturer-was an incident that has not been, and probably will not be, repeated...
...Keys petition touched off management's first open answer. To four Congressional committees G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson sent a blistering 816-word telegram. "The dual allegiance which will arise when foremen are unionized will imperil their ability to fulfill their responsibilities. ... It is easy to visualize the complete breakdown of authority and internal plant discipline...
From the Chinese Embassy in Washington came this: MANY THANKS FOR YOU TELEGRAM. MADAME CHIANG GREATLY APPRECIATES YOUR KIND INVITATION, BUT AS HER ATTENDING PHYSICIANS URGENTLY ADVISE TO REDUCE PUBLIC APPEARANCES TO A MINIMUM DURING PERIOD OF CONVALESCENCE, SHE REGRETS VERY MUCH BEING UNABLE TO AVAIL HERSELF OF THE INVITATION. CHINESE EMBASSY...