Word: telegraphe
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...Black Committee, it developed, had seized the Feb. 1-Dec. 1 telegrams of some 1,000 firms, organizations and individuals. Some of this booty had been obtained by the Committee's own subpoenas, of which it had issued more than 2,000 to Western Union and Postal Telegraph offices throughout the land. Others, it was reported, had been secured for it by the Federal Communications Commission, whose clerks were said to have copied off more than 13,000 messages in Western Union's Washington offices alone. Newshawks estimated the total of telegrams seized...
Representative, who was once a Senator, further declared that the Federal Communications Commission, though empowered to examine telegraph companies' records for its own purposes, had no power whatever to seize private correspondence transmitted by these common carriers. That "pillage," cried the New Yorker, was an act of "terrorism" which led straight to political blackmail...
...another Cities Service subsidiary, likewise testified that their anti-utilities bill telegrams had been burned or otherwise disposed of. "And all this being true," Senator Black asked a Crew Levick sales manager, "the only place on this earth where the Committee can get this information is from the telegraph companies...
...Communist, Robert Ernest Doherty becomes president of a topflight U. S. engineering school after 22 years in engineering, only five in teaching. At 18, he was tapping a telegraph key for Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Six years later, a graduate of the University of Illinois, he joined the engineering staff of General Electric, where he worked for a time with the late, great Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. No recluse, he served a term as Mayor of Scotia, N. Y., near G. E.'s Schenectady plant...
...some 466,500 U. S. residents put in new telephones or re-subscribed for telephone service. Although the 13,844,000 telephones reported by American Telephone & Telegraph and its 23 associated companies as in service at the close of 1935 were 1,746,000 below the peak telephone census of 1930, Bell Telephone users made an average of 61,000,000 calls per day in 1935, a little more than 4% increase over 1934. The Bell System took in $934,371,000. Profit was $132,795,000, about $21,627,000 better than the previous year. A. T. & T. paid...