Word: telegramming
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...another color. Equally inconspicuous a few years since, Calvin Coolidge stands forth today as the dominant personality on the Republican ticket. Of ancient New England stock, a shrewd, calculating country lawyer, "Honest Cal" has become in the person of "the silent man on Beacon Hill" a national figure. His telegram to Samuel Gompers, his second inaugural speech, have stamped him as more than an able politician. He has proved himself a vigorous statesman...
...McSweeney is further not quite clear as to what the historical error was. He devotes some time to proving that there were hostile feelings between the United States and Great Britain before the Civil War. This is, of course, true, and obviously consistent with the telegram...
...reference in the telegram one needs only to turn to the Encyclopedia Britannica, page 33, volume 28, for ample proof...
...creditable to Harvard when its distinguished spokesmen are obliged to misquote history to justify their position when they say 'In 1860 our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war over the Trent affair." In these words E. F. McSweeney attacks the telegram sent by President Lowell and a thousand other members of the University asking Senator Lodge of defeat the Mason Bill...
...McSweeney makes much of the "our" which he finds before "Queen Victoria." He is either the victim of or guilty of gross misrepresentation. The telegram actually read "In eighteen-sixty-one Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln...