Word: telegramming
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Last week Germany awoke when Neville Chamberlain sent a telegram to Secretary General Joseph A. C. Avenol of the League of Nations. In accordance with the League resolution to help Finland, he said, Britain intended "to afford the Finnish Government all the assistance she is in a position to give. She already is taking necessary steps to this...
...night 10 years ago a stranger ambled into the Chelsea, Okla. station of the Frisco Line to file a telegram. He noticed a guitar resting beside the telegraph operator, a fellow named Autry, and requested They Plowed the Old Trail Under. Autry sang it, whereupon the stranger took the guitar and sang Casey Jones. The stranger chatted a while, told Autry his voice might get him somewhere some day, handed him a stick of chewing gum, and left his telegram. It was signed "Will Rogers...
...radio editors, listening to the radio is a business. A few radio programs and performers sometimes make that business a pleasure. Since 1932 the New York World-Telegram has annually polled radio editors in the U. S. and Canada to find out whom & what they found most pleasurable on the air. Last Saturday, World-Telegram's, industrious Radio Editor Alton Cook scored up the 1939 consensus of about a hundred other radio editors...
...R.K.O., Producer Aylesworth gave up cinema, went to work for the management of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. No lover of the New Deal, he suited President Roy Howard's increasing distaste for the Roosevelt Administration. Last year Roy Howard upped Ray Allen Huber, publisher of the New York World-Telegram, made him general manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers and put Merlin Aylesworth in charge of the World-Telegram...
Last week, Lawyer-Utilitarian-Broadcaster-Cinemagnate-Publisher Aylesworth, like the magical Merlin himself, was gone again. He resigned his job on the World-Telegram, and, standing before Justice Francis Martin of the Supreme Court of New York, at 53 was admitted to the bar. His aim: to practice corporation law and specialize in litigation involving labor and taxation disputes...