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...CONTRACTS Farley Kills Agreements on Suspicion of Deals with Franklin in 1776 . . . The sweeping cancellation, Mr. Farley told reporters, was the result of a recent Senate investigation which indicated the possibility of irregularities in the original contracts awarded by ex-Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin to stage-coach drivers and dispatch riders in 1776. . . . 'There is almost positive evidence.' Mr. Farley, said, 'that at a somewhat later date the Wells-Fargo Co. paid the Pony Express the sum of $7.38 in cash, and a keg of Jamaica rum, to refrain from bidding on the Government contract to carry...
...would digest the daily newspapers arranged for him by a secretary. He might go out to luncheon with a banker, or speed to Washington for a White House press conference. In the afternoon, working in shirt-sleeves and puffing a pipe, he would write his daily 1,200 word dispatch in longhand. His secretary would pick up a private telephone to Western Union to put it on the cables...
Three days later the Herald Tribune was obliged to print an Associated Press dispatch to the effect that President Roosevelt thought Publisher Reid was making a silly spectacle of himself. The President's words: "Neither the millions and millions of people constituting the reading public nor the hundreds of individuals representing the overwhelming majority of newspaper publishers can, in any way, be concerned with or wrought up over the silly and wholly unjustified conversation on the part of a small minority who suggest that the freedom of the Press has been either destroyed or assailed." The President...
...even the Declaration of Independence had no influence on Senators bent on passing the Stock Exchange Bill as the Administration wanted it. One by one all attempts at pulling its teeth were overridden with dispatch. When Wall Street heard that Ohio's Senator Bulkley had been able to pick up 30 votes, including Senator Carter Glass's, for an amendment banning all margin trading, the last slim hope for a moderate measure disappeared. Stock Exchange seats plummeted to $100,000, down $40,000 from last month, $90,000 from last February...
...also the first newspaper in the U. S. to install a Morse telegraph wire and a linotype machine. Other underwriters included the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Times, Washington Star, Washington Post, Philadelphia Bulletin, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland News, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Omaha World-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Miami Daily News, Dayton News, Buffalo News, Buffalo Courier-Express, Syracuse Herald, Oklahoma City Oklahoman, Dallas News...