Word: telegramming
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Ishbel, apple-cheeked daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, received a telegram from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada saying that as a Christmas present a 10,000-ft. peak near Banff was henceforth to be known as Mount Ishbel...
...Ambassador to Mexico, last week formally accepting the U. S. Senate seat to which he will return from the London naval conference (TIME, Dec. 9). The day before, 50 potent New Jersey Republicans had met at Orange, formed the "Morrow-for-President-in-1936 Club." Meanwhile the New York Telegram in a front page story had given a headline nomination to New York's Owen D. Young as Candidate Morrow's 1936 Democratic opponent...
Taking down stories over the telephone, coordinating them, revamping them, the rewrite man softly cursing the reporter for not getting more and better facts, is routine in every newspaper office. But last week the New York Telegram received a story by telephone which occasioned no cursing, which no one dared rewrite...
...inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard...
...piece of news to startle the Telegram's readers it was not, perhaps, the scoop-of-the-year. Yet the Telegram's editor made haste to front-page it because he could truthfully call it "the first news story ever telephoned to a newspaper from a ship...