Word: telegrams
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...those who received his telegram that day in 1900, the news from Charles Jones, valet to the eccentric millionaire William Marsh Rice, was hardly a shock. After all, old Mr. Rice was 84, and it was therefore not surprising that he should have died of "old age, weak heart and delirium." But when friends and family arrived at his home, they came in for a shock after...
...Communists killed off 5,000 Vietnamese Nationalists. The wives and children of the purged ones thronged before him pleading mercy, but Uncle Ho ordered troops to disperse them. In 1946 Ho's Communists turned on the Trotskyites. One Trotskyite leader, an old friend, sent Ho a telegram asking clemency; Uncle Ho privately replied that he did not know the Trotskyite-who was promptly shot. Uncle Ho publicly maintained his reputation as a kindly man by weeping at the loss of his friend and by having the firing-squad commander replaced...
...Council telegram, nowever, urged the Academies to reconsider their decision because it "contradicts the spirit of free discussion" and "implies a lack of faith in American foreign policy...
...Bernardino, Calif., the Community Education project set out to make radio, press and discussion groups work together. This fall, for instance, the project is sponsoring a weekly radio program on family life, but before each broadcast, the San Bernardino Sun Telegram publishes a background article with questions to be discussed by the 76 groups dotted throughout the valley. Present enrollment in the various groups...
...opens his door to the public one day every week. Any Brazilian who wants to talk to the President simply goes to Cattete Palace in Rio and writes his name and address in a book. When his name comes up, a presidential aide summons him to the palace by telegram...