Word: telegramming
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...made Washington eyebrows jump: "Greatly appreciate if you will permit me to present [my reply] in person. . . . Can be in Washington Friday morning. . . . Would thank you to let me know time to be at your office." The President sent an ultimatum. George McNear sent back a 77-page collect telegram, refusing to arbitrate. The President thereupon seized the railroad, cracked an important transportation bottleneck around Chicago...
Three times in three years Lady MacRobert, Massachusetts-born widow of Sir Alexander MacRobert of Tarland, Aberdeenshire, was handed one of the tiny yellow envelopes. Inside each one was a telegram beginning: "The Air Ministry regret...
Cross-Ups. In Philadelphia, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Früs sued a telegraph company for $15,000 for the "anguish" they said they had been caused when Mr. Friis received a misdirected telegram from a strange woman...
...City News served 22 papers, employed 150 reporters. Newspaper mergers and resignations whittled membership to eight. When two of these (the Herald Tribune and Post) resigned last month, their share of assessments (about $72,800 a year) was loaded on the remaining six members (Times, News, World-Telegram, Sun, Journal-American, A.P.). These six could neither agree to pay this extra nor to accept less service. Associated Press announced that it would take over City New's tricky urban coverage, adding 29 of its 67 reporters to A.P.'s own local staff...
...Yale Daily News has made no official announcement about what changes, if any, it will make in its policy because of the war. In a telegram to the CRIMSON last night, the News said that for the present it would continue to publish six issues a week...