Word: telegramming
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While he was at sea, a movement was launched by the New York Telegram to accord Hero Young a hero's welcome. It was accurately pointed out that his achievements at Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch...
...deluge" and the "mushroom-like growth of free publicity." Then it told of a committee formed by the Association to "stem" the evil, forestall the "space-grabbing attempts." Placed in active charge of the committee's work was Andrew Ford, onetime managing editor of the New York Telegram. With a corps of assistants he was to examine and investigate the publicity releases of should-be advertisers, to weed out the real news from the "hand-outs." After weeding, weekly warnings will be sent to all Association members, to all newspaperdom. Whenever possible, Weeder Ford will scotch unworthy publicity schemes...
Frank Nekola, Holy Cross portsider who defeated Harvard last Saturday, signed a pitching agreement with the New York American League baseball club two years ago, according to a reported announcement from Judge Landis unconfirmed last night. O'Donnell, director of athletics at Holy Cross, received the following telegram late yesterday afternoon from Judge Landis' secretary: "Nekola agrees to join the New York Yankees, June 22, for specified salary which will begin the day he reports...
Last week he received a telegram. It read: ''Des Moines University students promise not to rotten-egg Dr. T. T. Shields and Miss Edith Rebman of the board of trustees when pair return to Des Moines next week...
...Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...