Word: telegraphe
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...Bell Telephone Securities Co. abruptly stopped selling American Telephone & Telegraph stock. Set up ten years ago when A. T. & T. wanted to enlarge the number of its stockholders to 400,000 (number of A. T. & T. stockholders is now 700,000), the Securities Co. took orders from small investors, bought A. T. & T. stock in the market to fill the orders and resold it in small lots, generally on the instalment plan. Reason for last week's sudden cessation of business was the new Federal Securities Act (TIME, June 12) which even great A. T. & T., equipped with...
Subpenaed by telegraph, Salesman Bevier hotly disagreed. The C. C. C., he said, "wanted a fine quality of toilet article." Before the whirlwind finish of his Washington sales campaign he had spent a fruitless fortnight interviewing captains and colonels in the War Department. It then occurred to him, he said, that a President's Secretary would know "exactly what officials to get in contact with." He saw Mr. Howe at 3:30 the afternoon of May 15. Mr. Howe's letter did not reach Director Fechner until next day, but "before sundown" the contract, under which...
...every birthday King George distributes many a fine pres-ent to loyal subjects. Last week's birthday honors list, shorter than usual, contained but four new peerages, all baronies: one for George Lane-Fox, former Parliamentary Secretary for Mines; one for Publisher Sir Edward Iliffe of the Daily Telegraph; one for Vice President Sir Ernest Palmer of the Royal College of Music; one for Major General J. E. B. Seely for his work in Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting...
Very rich, very pious are the Harper Sibleys of Rochester, N. Y. Son of Hiram W. who helped found Western Union Telegraph Co. and was its first president, Harper Sibley owns ranches in Alberta and California, Sibley Farms in Illinois. He is in banking, lumber and coal, gives time to civic enterprises like the Community Chest and the Genesee Hospital. A lean, bronzed outdoor man, able tennist at 48, Harper Sibley is a member of the potent National Council of the Episcopal Church and a friend of Rochester's Bishop David Lincoln Ferris. His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr...
...Overhead ' is a familiar technical term in newspaper work. It describes a report flashed to a newspaper directly by commercial telegraph instead of through the regular channels of a wire service. For instance: on Decoration Day in the town of Walsenburg, Colo., 50 mi. south of Pueblo, Editor John B. Kirkpatrick of the World & Independent wired Associated Press in Denver that he wanted coverage of the Indianapolis automobile races. Presently AP wired its reply: WILL OVERHEAD WINNER OF INDIANAPOLIS RACES. Editor Kirkpatrick jumped with excitement. An hour later the World & Independent's 1,750 readers puzzled over...