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In 1931 the News purchased the Portland Telegram from C. H. Brockhagen, and merged the two papers to form the News-Telegram. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to Oregon newspaper historian George Turnbull , following the merger, the character of the consolidated paper reflected the News more than the Telegram , though the Telegram provided "a number ...
X Article. The " X Article " is an article, formally titled " The Sources of Soviet Conduct ", written by George F. Kennan and published under the pseudonym "X" in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. It introduced the term "containment" to widespread use and advocated the strategic use of that concept against the Soviet Union.
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign ...
The term "Willy-Nicky Telegrams" is derived from The Willy-Nicky Correspondence, the title of a book by Herman Bernstein published in 1918 which revealed the personal telegraphic correspondence between the two emperors during the period of June 1904 to August 1907. [ 8][ 9] The telegrams start with a plea from Nicholas to Wilhelm to try to stop ...
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A skillful dribbler , he is considered one of the greatest players of all time, [ 2 ] along with being considered one of the most talented to play.
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...
C. H. Brockhagen bought the paper, and was the publisher from 1927 until the 1931 merger with the News. According to Oregon newspaper historian George Turnbull, following the merger, the character of the consolidated paper reflected the News more than the Telegram, though the Telegram provided "a number of valuable staff members." References
Timeline of North American telegraphy. January 22, 1848 map in New York Herald showing extent of existing and planned North American telegraph lines. At this time, the service area for the United States reached Petersburg, Virginia in the south, Portland, Maine in the northeast, Cleveland, Ohio in the northwest, and as far west as East St ...