Word: senders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matter of an indecent, lewd, lascivious, obscene, libelous, scurrilous, defamatory or threatening character" is barred from the U. S. mails and the sender is subject to a fine of not more than $5,000 or not more than five years imprisonment or both- Section 212, U. S. Penal Code...
...seemed to get used to it and flashed: "Going fine ... we will run out of it soon." Again, he said: "Go-ing strong. . . . Radio beacon working great." The strain began to show in a later message: "Receiving set on the bum .... don't worry me," but still the sender signed a jaunty, "So long." Early in the second day fog-fear had them fairly. Flying through or above obscurity, they had not seen the Pacific since they left shore. Head winds had slowed them down badly. Evidently they had been reckoning their position and nervously gauging their gasoline. They...
...Washington, D. C., Senator Caraway of Arkansas opened his morning mail, found therein a check for $10. The sender congratulated Senator Caraway for his "magnificent speech" in behalf of William G. McAdoo, asked that he transmit the $10 to Mr. McAdoo's Presidential campaign managers. The check speedily went back to the sender with the words: "You are barking up the wrong tree." Senator Caraway, as everyone knows, is an enemy of Mr. McAdoo...
...Belgium. From Ostend to Manhattan came a cablegram signed "Walter Hagen," announcing that 143 strokes over the Ostend links had proved few enough for the suave sender to list the 1924 Belgian Open Championship among his triumphs. Second, Aubrey Boomer (French) 146; third, Frank Ball (English) 150; fourth, Gil Nichols (American...
Owing to a new invention, the work of M. Belin, it is now possible to send and have delivered an autograph telegram. The sender of a telegram has only to write his message on a revolving cylinder covered with paper. Special ink is used which makes the words appear in slight relief; a delicate needle then strikes the obstacles made by the letters, is jerked upward and interrupts the electric circuit. These interruptions are all recorded at the other end and result in an exact copy of the written telegram. The machine is now being placed in all French telegraph...