Word: cablese
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A radio antenna sprouts from one of the squat mud turrets of Ibn Saud's mud-walled Palace, at Riyadh, his Capital. Unfortunately, however, even such modern equipment could not enable the Sultan to know, last week, what the cables of the world press were flashing about his reputed...
Died. Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, 65, son of the late John Wanamaker, urbane president of the John Wanamaker Stores, patron of art, aviation, exploration, director of many large corporations, president of the First Penny Savings Bank of Philadelphia, one of the most heavily insured men in the world ($7,500,000...
...first paragraph is written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...
The Mackay Companies ("Telegrams to all America: cables to all the world")-$4,627,417. Previous year: $4,626,171.
Yachts are rarely wrecked. Only the sturdiest, save in exceptional cases, go far to sea. Others are shrewdly, carefully sailed or navigated. Or perhaps yachtsmen are lucky. Among the rare disasters are: The father of W. A. W. Stewart, one-time commodore of the potent Seawan-haka Yacht Club, Oyster...