Word: cablese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parisians were especially delighted, last week, by a sly little story which came clicking over the cables from Manhattan, just after John Pierpont Morgan and Owen D. Young had embarked on the Aquitania for France, there to sit on the Second Dawes Committee, which will revise the Dawes Plan (TIME...
Once, taking a dislike to the music critic's hair, he cabled: "Tell Meltzer to cut his hair." Further exchanges of cables found Meltzer with hair still uncut. Bennett cabled: "Send him to St. Petersburg."
President Hernando Siles of Bolivia took step after step toward war, last week, while his Foreign Minister, Tomas Manuel Elio, kept the cables hot with peace talk.
Col. Behn's great design thus became obvious to the most casual observer. I. T. & T. cables stretch to the west coast of South America. Here they connect with the trans-Andean cable and telephone lines. And these lines in turn connect with the domestic telephone systems of Chile...
Frank Baldwin Jewett, 49, is president of Bell Telephone Laboratories' 2,000 scientists and their 2,000 assistants. It is the biggest organization of its kind in the world. They invented permalloy and thereby quadrupled the amount of messages possible to send over cables. They made long distance and...