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...good bet that, in pre-Babylonian days, bookies made money. But, without the services of such modern inventions as Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Disconnected? | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...India, although having his troubles with Mohandas K. Gandhi's Indian National Congress party which last week began a campaign of noncooperation and threatened one of civil disobedience, was swamped with 300 other princely protestations of loyalty and extravagant promises of support delivered in person or by telegraph to New Delhi. > The 60-year-old Maharaja of Bikaner (19 guns), also a lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eastern Friends | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

John J. Robinson, President of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, will speak before the Business Economic Council tonight in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 8:15 o'clock. His subject will be "Current Economic Problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robinson Speaks Tonight | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...once it was not emphasized that many prominent British males, including most of the King's brothers, are expert fancy knitters, samples of whose work are exhibited in Britain occasionally in peacetime. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, close to Downing Street, emphasized rather the feminine side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Comfort | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Elected Vice-Presidents of the Alumni Association, to serve three years, were Arthur W. Page '05, of New York, and Richard C. Floyd '11, of Brookline, Mass. Mr. Page is Vice-President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Southern Education Foundation, Teachers College, N. Y., and Bennington College. Mr. Floyd, a manufacturer is Vice-President of Bird and Son, and for several years has been President of the Varsity Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

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