Word: telegraphe
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There was the southern man who enthusiastically "cooperated" for 100 telegraphed words and concluded by asking a job as guard at the White House. A West Virginia wrecking company sent its somewhat ambiguous "cooperation." And once in a while there is the cheery personal note, heartening to an harassed president. So far the prize goes to the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, lodge of Moose who began their response to the great summons with, "Dear Brother Moose." It is all a cross section of a nation, depicted by prepaid words on telegraph blanks...
...that even before the dates set in the agreements which we have sent out, the employers of the country who have not done so-the big fellows and the little fellows-shall at once write or telegraph me at the White House, expressing their intention of going through with the plan. And it is my purpose to keep posted in the postoffice of every town a roll of honor of all those who join with me. I cannot guarantee the success of this nation-wide plan, but the people of this country can guarantee its success...
Died. Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, Viscount Burnham, 70, retired owner-publisher of the London Daily Telegraph, last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet...
Bill Young's flair for analysis came from his father who was for years American Telephone & Telegraph's chief traveling auditor. While still an undergraduate Bill Young published financial articles, invented a new type of slide rule. His method of calculating security values involves the use of 30 separate ratios. Now 32, married but childless, he lives on swank Sutton Place, uses his yacht Arab as a summer home...
...matter while Congress was in session, contented himself with broad hints that if the 18th Amendment were revoked by Jan. 1, he would drop special emergency taxes on gasoline, dividends, corporate profits to finance the Federal building program (TIME. May 29). Last week he took occasion to telegraph National Committeeman Leon McCord of Alabama...