Word: telegramming
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...Just received telegram from friend on Yale Varsity who says that David Livingston, rowing No. 4 on Junior Varsity, cannot go to New London to race against Harvard because of R. O. T. C. engineering camp. Apparently no Senators have been able to excuse him and they wish father to intervene as soon as possible if anything can be done. See you at the races, I hope. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., member of Harvard's Freshman crew, sent that telegram last week to White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President saw the message he sent Sub-Secretary Early...
...Carl Dickey is a member of the Manhattan press-agent firm of Carl Byoir & Associates. Carl Byoir, onetime publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, developed to his full stature under George Creel in the Wartime propaganda service. From Publicist Dickey the committee learned that in 1933 the Byoir agency had received $4.000 from Consul Kiep to "explain" Hitlerite anti-Semitism in publicity releases. Since then the firm has handled a $6,000-a-month campaign publicizing German Railways, travel in Germany. Of the $6,000 monthly fee, said Mr. Dickey, $1.750 went to George Sylvester Viereck...
...speakeasy and mysterious stirrings in the Bradford house. Arlene turns up dead in the garage. The newshawk's loyalties waver between his paper and Arlene's half-sister (Margaret Lindsay) whom he loves. A free-for-all chase leads to more mystery. Who sent the spurious telegram? Who threw Jake Bello into the bay? What about the sinister butler, the yacht Nowishn and Arthur Burchard to whom Arlene willed her money...
...good to keep. President Roosevelt had consented to come up. accept an LL. D. He will be the ninth actual or future U. S. President to receive Yale's kudos. George Washington got his degree while in office, by letter. William McKinley. also in office, accepted by telegram. William Howard Taft was a Federal judge when he was honored in 1893. President Theodore Roosevelt and Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton got their degrees at the same commencement, in 1901. Last to be kudized was U. S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover...
Last week a rich old man died in what the Press called his "palatial home" near Los Angeles. His age was assumed to be 92 years. His importance could be gauged by the fact that before his funeral the Federal Government in Washington dispatched a telegram forbidding burial without its consent...