Word: telegramming
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...Alston Blackwell '40, Babcock's roommate, said yesterday that the missing student had sent a telegram to an aunt in Summit, N. J., with the brief message, "Am in army until end of war." The message was sent from Fort de France, Martinique. Presumably Babcock had made his way there in order to enlist under French colors and obtain passage to France...
This dash of cool water on the boiling oil of Mexican politics made the political cauldron crackle and hiss. President Cárdenas' dominant Party of the Mexican Revolution sent its chief a long telegram urging him to stand by his guns, organized demonstrations in all of Mexico's 28 States. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Confederation of Mexican Labor called on all its subsidiary labor organizations to make a fuss against "Yankee imperialism." Even supporters of the anti-Cárdenas Presidential candidate, General Juan Andreu Almazan, declared for publication they would not oppose whatever decision...
...Castellini of the Fels Planetarium telegraphed Benny, care of Station KYW: "Your worst fears that world will end are confirmed by astronomers of the Franklin Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium show called "How the World Will End&"-following a news broadcast, with no mention of Jack Benny. Result: a minor panic in the City of Brotherly Love, jammed switchboards, perspiring cops, an editorial rebuke from the Philadelphia Inquirer. * Princeton University Press...
...that time Langdon P. Marvin '98, here to attend a meeting of the Board of Overseers, received a telegram saying "Mayor so distressed by prospect three Harvard meetings and three speeches sends word his office cancel whole thing though already pledged to Culter for Thursday...
...telegram was signed by Charles C. Burlingham '79, a friend of La Guardia's who had persuaded him to speak at the Senior dinner and who apparently thought that it was Marvin pere, not Marvin fils, who was running the open meeting following the Senior dinner...