Word: telegramming
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...between the foregoing clauses and stood" in the way of adoption of a code by newspapers. The committeemen. representing the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, were Howard Davis, plump manager of the New York Herald Tribune, Amon Giles Carter, potent Texas Democrat and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader, Charles R. Butler, president of the Inland Daily Press Association...
...pamphlet was a first gun to turn out Tammany in the November election. Papers like the World-Telegram had started their "Tammany Must Go" chorus. But with no serious fusion opposition in sight Tammany never felt less like going in its life. Therefore last week big-bodied bumbling Mayor O'Brien marched into Tammany Hall, got his orders, marched out again confidently to announce: "I am a candidate for re-election." A few days later, when the city's finances were audited, a deficit of $162.000.000 was revealed...
...past 20 years. But this arrival set official Washington by the ears. Amid a blaze of unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy at the London Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi-official importance...
...Orient two months ago went two potent newspapermen, friends but rivals. One was Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; the other, Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, editor of the New York World-Telegram and onetime president of the Scripps-founded United Press. Arriving in Tokyo together, AP's Cooper and UP's Howard were wined and dined by all bigwigs from Prince Tokugawa down. After that Mr. Cooper visited Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong. Mr. Howard flew in a military plane to Manchuria, interviewed Japanese and Chinese generals...
...telegram which the people of Bayreuth have feared all spring arrived there last week. The Bavarian telegrapher's face was solemnly long as he received the message over the wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival...