Word: telegraphe
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...climbed a telegraph pole, ran a foot race with the police, jumped off the dock, and woke up aboard a river boat 100 miles from home...
Senator Robert J. Buckley '02 of Ohio; Joseph C. Grew '02, ambassador to Japan; Arthur A. Ballantine '04, former Undersecretary of the Treasury; Congressman Chester C. Bolton '05 of Ohio; Ogden L. Mills '05, former Secretary of the Treasury; Walter S. Gifford '05, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, chairman of the Chase National Bank; Congressman Robert L. Bacon...
Another room contains a couple of dozen typewriters, Western Union and Postal Telegraph press blank, and a dozen messengers ready at the beck and call of reporters who have been forced to reduce the gross poundage of learned papers to one readable story. The heads of the science departments of the three big wire services, the AP, the UP, and the INS, as well as three or four men from each Boston paper and from several other out of town papers, were also present. Science Service, an organization specializing in the gathering of all scientific news, sent a large fraction...
When the Federal Communications Commission began a public investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last spring, a prime charge against the big telephone monopoly was that its long-distance call profits were too fat. Ever since 1926, however, A. T. & T. has found that profits spring from volume rather than high rates. Last week it reduced long-distance rates for the seventh time in ten years...
Died, Harry Bates Thayer, 78, onetime president (1919-25) and board chairman (1925-28) of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn. Under his presidency A. T. & T. upped its outstanding capital to $898,398,000 eclipsing U. S. Steel, became the world's biggest corporation...