Word: telegramming
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...Telegram. Ask a Midwesterner who owns the New York Telegram. He will most likely guess Hearst, then give up. But he knows all about the Scripps-Howard newspapers. There are 25 of them scattered from Washington and Baltimore to San Diego and San Francisco. He will feel pretty certain that the Scripps-Howard chain has no link in Manhattan. Up to last week that was true. Then Chairman Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard organization announced that he had bought the New York Telegram, for a price not named, from the man who only lately acquired it (together with...
...Senators were confused by the contentions of religious bodies. Early in January the Senators received a telegram, signed by Bishop William T. Manning, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and James Cannon Jr. It read: "Northern Baptist Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South, Reformed Church in their respective conventions and the bishops ot the Episcopal Church have denounced the Lausanne Treaty...
James Rowland Angell, President of Yale: "Lately, Director Richard Swann Lull of our university's Peabody Museum received a telegram from Texas saying that Old Bill, 22-year-old, 2,500-pound Asian armored rhinoceros, worth $30,000, had died very suddenly. Professor Lull, quick to reply, told Old Bill's owners, the Ringling Brothers Circus, that he would be glad to have them stand by an agreement made years ago by the late P. T. Barnum and renewed by the Ringlings when they bought out Mr. Barnum, that the corpses of their rare animals should come...
Next morning Lady Hoare stood with her husband at the Croydon Airdrome, reading a telegram...
...inscription: "For Bravery in the face of Senate Gas." A telegram offering him the Democratic nomination for President in 1928, which Mr. Dawes accepted provided the Republican nomination was added to it. A small silk hat, to which Mr. Dawes replied: "My head is no larger than it was when I came to the Senate." A yellow taxicab, accompanied by the reading of a parody on "Sheridan 20 Miles Away," which told how Mr. Dawes slept at the Hotel Willard while the Senate voted down the nomination of Charles B. Warren for Attorney General...