Word: telegraphe
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...cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four big teeth . . . and for eyes I inserted in the sockets of the monster two telegraph pole insulators of green glass. . . . I painted the head in yellow and black stripes . . . the mouth red . . . the ears blue...
...anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees. By & large it was orderly, but in Paris 1,600 employes of the Central Telegraph office staged a brief protest strike...
...from the Federal Trade Commission but from Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter Marshall William Splawn went a report to Congress last week on another kind of holding company-telephone & telegraph. Urging enactment of the Rayburn bill to establish a separate Federal Communications Commission, Dr. Splawn eyed the $5,000,000,000 American Telephone & Telegraph System with deep suspicion, recommended that it be investigated. His suspicions were based largely on his study of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., an independent about one-fiftieth the size of A. T. & T., now in receivership. ''What is disclosed by the examination of the Associated...
...Government had guaranteed a $100,000,000 bank loan to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which remained a secret for months & months and if President Roosevelt had appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee to be cross-examined on such a transaction by rich, radical Senator Couzens, the ensuing commotion in Washington would have been deafening. Yet 500 miles to the north on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, last week, approximately the same set of facts was revealed without any Dominion-shaking uproar. Edward Wentworth Beatty, blunt, ready-tongued head of Canadian Pacific Ry., had testified before the House of Commons Banking & Currency...
Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with...