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Nudge. In Brazil's Amazon Valley, rubber gatherers got priorities on a new supply of 1,500,000 fish hooks, result of their telegram to U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery: "No fish hooks, no fish; no fish, no eat; no eat, no rubber...
Such writing brought from the President a telegram that said: "Congratulations on reaching the three-quarter mark. I hope that during the next 25 years you will be with me all the time instead of only three and one-half years out of every four. I think that in a quarter of a century the firm of White and Roosevelt might be able to bring the Four Freedoms at least to this nation of ours...
...utter surprise, when the consulate opened there was thy telegram for Thanksgiving ! It apparently had arrived during the siege and was it a welcome greeting...
Meanwhile, belated attempts to snare the elusive can of beer, have been pouring in from all quarters. A telegram from Exeter brought the right solution at the wrong time. A letter from Andover brought out a weird arrangement of s and t's and periods, with the result running something like "Am in a mess. Beware of trap." They're in a mess...
Editorially the World-Telegram bemoaned the "prison-opening impulses of transient, interim governors" and implied that by paroling Arsonist Hoffman, Poletti was currying Labor's favor "as a future political asset...