Word: telegraphe
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Senorita Elida Dacunda flounced out into the broiling village plaza. In two minutes she had found her father. In five minutes he had gathered a mob. Father Dacunda rushed into the telegraph office, sent a protest to the Provincial Governor at nearby Corrientes, rushed out again. The mob retired to the cooler shadows on the edge of the square...
Telephone & Telegraph. A Communications Commission with power over telephone, telegraph and cable companies similar to that of the Interstate Commerce Commission over railroads has been formally recommended by the President. But it can wait...
Finally convinced that the outlook was desperate, the Stewart-Warner management yielded. Last June six new directors were elected, including such potent Chicago names as Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer, American Telephone & Telegraph director, Lawyer Ralph Shaw, shrewd, hard-bitten member of Winston, Strawn & Shaw, Robert J. Dunham, close associate of the late Jonathan Ogden Armour. But because no one relished the idea of having Inventor Zerk tearing his thick black mane at directors' meetings, a temporary coalition was formed to defeat the Zerk slate with one exception. To soothe Mr. Zerk's temper, they made...
...with his employees or to maintain it once he had agreed? To determine the motive, the board is to have power to compel the submission of all books, papers, data, and figures and to subpoena anybody in the United States in any jurisdiction and summon them to Washington by telegraph or letter and compel attendance...
...head of the biggest U. S. corporation was by no means the highest paid. President Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph had his salary cut from $229,167 to $206,250 last March. Highest straight salary for 1932 was $250,000, paid to Charles M. Schwab as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper got $249,232 in 1932, against $345,000 in 1929. Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel got a $1,600,000 bonus in 1929 but his $12,000 salary had been upped to $180,000 for 1932. That year George Washington...