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...Houdini was equal to the occasion: "You're not a medium, and anyhow you ought to know what's in the telegram, you sent...
...witness before the House Committee of the District of Columbia, which was holding hearings on a bill to regulate clairvoyants, "mediums," etc., in the District of Columbia. In the back of the room sat several mediums. As a climax to his denunciation of their trickery, Mr. Houdini drew a telegram from his pocket, crushed in his hand and dashed it down upon the table before...
Paul Drennan Cravath, millionaire lawyer of Manhattan, has a worthy but troublesome legacy in Fisk University for Negroes (Nashville, Tenn.), of which his father, Rev. Erasmus M. Cravath, was the first president, and of which he is head trustee. Just a year ago he received a telegram from some Fisk undergraduates asking him please to investigate "the situation" (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925, et ante). This latter was created by Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, then President of Fisk. The students were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop...
Later that day a bellboy brought a sealed envelope to the President of the United Mine Workers. Mr. Lewis tore open the telegram, read it and grinned. He turned to the strike leaders and reporters who were gathered around. "Listen to this: 'Desire get married the day strike is settled. Advise...
Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...