Word: telegraphe
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...heroism. The A.P.'s Henry B. Jameson was the first American newsman casualty. The craft he rode to France was offshore 14 hours, frequently under heavy fire. Hit in the shoulder and leg, Reporter Jameson was able to walk off smiling (see put). First killed: the British Exchange Telegraph's Arthur Thorpe, in a naval action...
...Allies made a sharp counterattack against Argentine censorship last week. The sally was led by Colonel Sosthenes Behn, president of the potent International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. Argentina had ordered suspension for 24 hours of I.T. & T.'s All America Cables for the crime of transmitting a cable from Mexico to Argentina's President Edelmiro Farrell (the cable protested the deportation of an anti-Franco Spaniard to presumed death in Spain...
...bitterly anti-Roosevelt Senator Burton K. Wheeler walked in for his first White House visit since the spring of 1940. After a 45-minute chat, Burt Wheeler emerged, told newsmen that he and the President had discussed the coming 100th anniversary celebration of Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph.* Burt Wheeler added: "I'm against a fourth term, or a third term, for any President." But diplomatic relations had at least been reestablished...
...years the $462,000,000 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. helplessly watched the Axis overrun one of its properties after another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...
Harlow Shapley, Piano Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard Observatory, revealed today the censorship troubles experienced by astronomers. Radio and telegraph messages must be carefully worded to avoid any appearance of hidden or subversive meaning...