Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over the phone from her Littles Point (Swampscott) Summer home this noon, TIME-reader Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, regarded as like a mother to Grace, said...
...slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands. They went systematically about the business of keeping the Orangemen out of Cootehill. One squad wrecked the meeting hall. Others tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command of the town, marching and countermarching in the streets, directing traffic with a flourish...
...years before the final 30 was written, the Standard occupied the unique position of being probably the only news sheet in the nation with its editorial desk some 30 miles away from the press room* Before the advent of automatic printers, Butte copy was relayed to Anaconda via phone. This procedure was necessary since the Standard relied on Butte for its chief circulation and, because of AP franchise restrictions, was forced to publish in the smelter city...
...dine. There he and Ambassador Edge reviewed the French position on the Hoover plan. Next day after a formal luncheon he sat long and solemnly with Premier Laval. Later he matched figures and wits with Finance Minister Flandin. Then he went back to the Embassy and asked the tele- phone operator to get him the President of the U. S. His gentle voice promised Mr. Hoover a report, after further negotiations, on which the U. S. could base its reply to France...
Disquieting news from England that George V's lungs were again slightly ailing caused Edward of Wales and Prince George to advance fortnight ago the date of their departure from Brazil. But last week George V told his sons by radio-phone to stay on, said his condition was not serious, indeed that he was almost well...