Word: telegraphe
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...management which has brought the 128-year-old Hall into the shadow of its fifth reformation. This sorry plight, they claim, is due to the unfortunate personality and training of John Francis Curry. When Curry was a young ward heeler on the West Side he worked for a telegraph company instead of tending bar, as did most incipient Tammany officials. Lacking that broadening experience, he was suddenly shoved into the Leader's office in 1929 at the age of 56, too late in life for a district politician to learn to become a city, state, and political strategist...
Just primed from a study of U. S. reactions to Rooseveltism in all parts of the country, Leonard J. Reid, Financial Editor of the London Daily Telegraph, gave Britons another picture: "Roosevelt is being criticized in the Eastern United States but he could speak to the whole country tomorrow and hold them in the hollow of his hand...
Died. Hernand Behn, 53, elder of world-webbing International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s famed Brothers Behn; of alimentary disorders; in his villa at St. Jean-de-Luz, France. Born in the Virgin Islands of French-Danish-English-Dutch ancestry, educated in Corsica and Paris, he and his brother Sosthenes, growing sugar in Puerto Rico, took over the island's decrepit, 250-subscriber telephone system, put it shipshape, combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West...
...Toward the end of 1930 U. S. citizens began to realize that telephones were not a necessity of life. Month after month American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had more orders for disconnections than for new connections; the system lost some 2,000,000 subscribers. A. T. & T. reports telephone statistics quarterly, but last week enough of its subsidiaries had reported for September to assure the system a gain of some 20,000 subscribers- first monthly gain in nearly three years...
...recently widowed Lily Hitchcock Coit, already such a civic adornment that her photograph was entombed in the cornerstone of the new City Hall. This week all the public dignitaries of San Francisco and a few rheumy veterans of its honored Volunteer Fire Companies will climb to the top of Telegraph Hill to pay a last honor to Lily: the public dedication of a gleaming 181-ft. concrete shaft erected in her honor. At its base will be the thing Lily loved best in the world: the rickety, brass-trimmed Knickerbocker Fire Engine...