Word: telegraphe
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Until a year ago, when the Press undertook to control news broadcasting, all three Pittsburgh newspapers put news on the air. The Press (Scripps-Howard) worked through famed KDKA, first broadcasting station in the world; the Post-Gazette through WWSW; and Hearst's Sun-Telegraph through Hearst's WCAE. Then came the Press-Radio "truce" which forbade radio networks to give more than a smattering of news each day (TIME, Feb. 12). The Pittsburgh newspapers and their stations fell obediently into line...
...Telegraph repeaters clicked frantically throughout the Fatherland one day last week. Most urgent. Clear all lines. Berlin calling every Army officer above the rank of colonel, every Storm Troop leader, every Labor Corps leader, every Nazi Youth and Party leader. All were ordered to drop whatever they might be doing and rush to Berlin. Added the Realmleader's official circular telegram: NO EXCUSES WILL BE ACCEPTED...
...America), the late George Fisher Baker Sr. (lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Myron Charles Taylor, LL. D. (also lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Nicholas Murray Butler, D. C. L., LL. D. (lent by the Archaeological Biographical Society of New York), Walter Sherman Gifford (lent by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.), Eugene Grace (lent by Bethlehem Steel Corp.), Dr. Dean Sage (lent by the Presbyterian Hospital). Other Salisbury sitters: Benito Mussolini, William Thompson Dewart (New York...
...principle the A. P.'s new service, designed by American Telephone & Telegraph, is what the world has long known as Telephoto. But A. T. & T., which developed Telephoto at a cost of $2,800,000 only to junk it for lack of patronage, has applied to Wirephoto a new technique* whereby it can transmit a picture so perfectly that the result is almost as good as the original. And instead of eight scattered Telephoto stations, often far from the news, Wirephoto has 24 to start with, any of which can send and receive pictures with all others...
...rode out to the Belmont home of Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald, now 86 was the original "Little Eva." At the age 14 in her father's theatrical troupe, she scrambled across the ice floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When the play has been given in Boston, Mrs. MacDonald has always had the best box, been reported crying softly during the death scene. Last week she listened demurely while officials...