Word: telegraphe
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Once in the press of business Mr. Roosevelt knocked over his wastebasket, thought nothing of it. Two minutes before he was scheduled to press a telegraph key to open the new Cummings Highway over Tennessee's Lookout Mountain, "Doc" Smithers, White House telegrapher, went into the President's office to see whether everything was in order. It was not. The wastebasket had broken the telegraph wire. Hastily "Doc" Smithers crawled under the desk, held the broken ends of the wires together while the President, grinning, pressed...
Thus enlightened, Washington officials sped a $2,000,000 check order to Sacramento by telegraph. There it was learned that Governor Merriam was in Long Beach, 500 mi. away. But he would be in Los Angeles at 2 p. m. to sign the check. Southward zoomed the check by airplane. At 2 p. m. Governor Merriam was still in Long Beach, having a tooth pulled. Could his secretary sign for him? No, ruled a Federal official, nobody but the Governor. A messenger leaped into an automobile, roared out to Long Beach with the check. The Governor signed. Another messenger leaped...
...Dead Man." Hot after huge, unpopular Associated Gas & Electric Co., whose Warren, Pa. representative admitted last fortnight that he had sent Congressmen hundreds of unauthorized telegrams against the Public Utility Bill's "death sentence" (TIME. July 29), the Black committee summoned telegraph and utility men from York, Pa. Testimony was offered that an A. G. & E. subsidiary had prepared some 2,000 anti-"death sentence" telegrams, filed them in batches of 100 or more...
Just the kind of publicity-making titbit the committee wanted was turned up by a York telegraph official who testified that one Charles E. Small, purported signer of a protesting telegram to Pennsylvania's Representative Haines, had been dead for two years. But two days later A. G. & E. got more & better publicity by producing a fresh letter from Charles E. Small to Representative Haines. Wrote Mr. Small, father-in-law of an A. G. & E. plant superintendent: "I wish you to know that I am the man that is supposed to be dead, who wrote you and wired...
...account. When the American Osteopathic Association decided to hold its 39th convention in Cleveland last week Governor Martin Luther Davey welcomed it to the State, Mayor Harry Lyman Davis, to the city. When last week the Association hinted at holding its next convention in Manhattan, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman telegraphed: "The people of New York will be very highly honored. . . ." The Mer- chants Association of New York City telegraphed: "Upon recommendation of Dr. Goldwater, Commissioner of Hospitals. Mayor LaGuardia is issuing invitation to be forwarded by telegraph...