Word: telegramming
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...telegram of protest was last night dispatched by the NSL to authorities of the University of California at Los Angeles, censuring the University's actions in suspending five students for alleged fostering of Communistic activities...
...trusted White House economic observer. "I am a speculator." he said once, "and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe." In June 1933, the hawk-eyed financier was around Washington so conspicuously that a friend addressed a telegram to him as "Unofficial President of the U. S." After that his visits to the White House became few and far between...
...World-Telegram quoted Acts, I: 23-26 which ends: . . . and they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and lie was numbered with the eleven Apostles. The Times thought the lottery "degrading, humiliating and destructive." The American was piously against the plan. But the irrepressible Daily News was all for it because "there's no fun in a sales tax, a business tax, or a subway tax, but there's lots of fun in a lottery because every ticket buyer has a right to dream of winning. . . . We hope that Mayor LaGuardia, who has shown plenty...
...Telegram by Limousine. Welcome at this juncture was a diversion by Chinese Delegate Quo Tai-chi who wailed: "There is no doubt that continued military occupation [by Japan] of China's northeastern provinces constitutes the gravest existing danger of another war." After Mr. Quo had declared "Russia is the arch between Europe and Asia, hence China welcomes Russia to membership in the League," he received warm congratulations from the Great Powers and M. Barthou got back to the business of steering the Soviet Union...
...Cleveland News, first newspaper to be supplied with Associated Press Telephoto, RELIED exclusively on International News Photos for first pictures of the burning Morro Castle." That jibe was mild compared to Acme's. The latter in a two-page layout showed facsimiles of the New York World-Telegram and the New York Sun the day of the disaster. The former, labeled 12:15 p. m., bore a large picture by Acme of the liner ablaze. The Sun, labeled 4 p. m., carried a stodgy still of the Morro Castle in her prime. The credit line was Associated Press Photo...