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American Telephone & Telegraph. U. S. telephoning showed fewer "wrong numbers" and many more telephones, reported President Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The year added 798,592 phones to the Bell system, making a total of 19,200,000 U. S. phones in Bell system interconnections. Ignorant persons called "information" 750,000 times a day. American Tel & Tel showed a net income of $143,170,491, an increase of $14,555,581 over...
...report told, and Senator Reed rehearsed, how Mr. Vare, whom the late Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania used to call "the ashcart statesman" because he once hauled ashes and garbage in Philadelphia, spent colossal sums to wrest the nomination from Gifford Pinchot and George Wharton Pepper (who both used colossal sums themselves...
Followed threats of a great hard-coal strike, and Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, rushed to the breach...
...took front-row seats. Senator Curtis went for a stroll in the Capitol grounds. His runner-up, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, dallied in the vacant Senate cloak room. Four tellers-California's Shortridge and Utah's King for the Senate; Alabama's Jeffers and Massachusetts' Gifford for the House-ranged themselves importantly before the rostrum. The boxes were unlocked. To Mr. Jeffers was handed the first envelope. He broke the red registry seal and announced...
This formula was followed through the 47 other States, alphabetically, Senator Shortridge's sepulchral voice brought an impertinent clamor of "Louder." Rhode Island's full name-The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation-was carelessly omitted. Mr. Gifford modified the formula when he announced that Massachusetts "seemed" to have gone for Smith. "Whoopee!" cried the Democrats. A Republican rebel yell punctuated the Texas and Virginia votes...