Word: telegraphe
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...ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were wounded when the Chinese accidentally bombed the Wing On department store in Shanghai...
...original manuscript to Menuhin, asking his opinion of the work. Menuhin replied with an enthusiastic endorsement and a request for performing rights, encouraged Strecker to contest the provisions of Joachim's will. Meantime in England a remarkable claim was advanced, remarkably supported by Critic Richard Capell (London Daily Telegraph) and internationally famed Musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey. The claim: that the violinist, Jelly D'Aranyi, grandniece of Joachim, had "discovered" the existence of the "lost" concerto while interviewing Schumann's ghost at a spiritualist seance. Miss D'Aranyi wanted the performing rights for herself, had announced...
...almost from scratch. As in C. D. Barney, the Manhattan office became the head office but, instead of concentrating on the brokerage business, E. B. Smith set out to rebuild its underwriting business. It got off on the right foot by floating the first public offering of International Telephone & Telegraph common stocks. I. T. & T. financing soon got too big for the firm to handle and went to J. P. Morgan & Co., but E. B. Smith enjoyed the reflected glory and a fat slice of every I. T. & T. deal. Some of its other flotations like Roosevelt Field...
Died. Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, one-time (1899-1913) Congressman from Texas, Postmaster General (1913-1921); of heart trouble, in Austin, Tex. Postmaster Burleson built up the parcel post system, established the first regular air mail, advocated, after the War, permanent Government control of telegraph, telephone and cable services...
Vainly Witter Bynner pleaded with the gravediggers to bury his mother's body. At length, he and his friends deposited the casket on a shelf and Poet Bynner rushed to a telegraph office to appeal to President Roosevelt to do something about ''this affront to fundamental human rights." To the President and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins he wired that "there should be equitable Federal or State supervision over the status of cemetery employes, protecting them against injustice and also protecting the bereaved and unoffending citizen against a recurrence of such grievous indignity...