Word: telegraphe
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...join the Gang. That, earlier, he refused to have anything to do with the campaign when he had found that he was in the hands of the man the Gang had selected as his manager. He not only refused to leave his farm, he refused to permit the telegraph company to run a wire to his farm home: he refused, in short, the highest measure of success. And history will be interested in why he refused. Three years later, did not this same man, Stone, shout and wave at his cohorts in State convention that "I am in favor...
London was encouraged but still a bit suspicious. Said the Daily Telegraph...
...brief years of Calvin Coolidge's presidency, Mr. Behn's International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., starting as an obscure Puerto-Rican adventure, had acquired most of the telephone business of South America, had obtained a complete monopoly in Spain from His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, had rebuilt the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, had obtained the backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. With the acquisition of Mackay-Postal it became the second largest communication company in the world.* Last week Mr. Behn became a director of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co., potent Swedish manufacturers of electrical equipment...
...public had never heard of him and even among bankers and industrialists his name meant little when, suddenly in 1928, Sosthenes Behn became master of Mackay-Postal telegraph system. When editors cried for a picture of the new successor to the late romantic silver-mining telegraph tycoon John William Mackay, all they could get was a fusty photograph of a man with a beard. This they printed only to be told that Sosthenes Behn had removed his beard some years before. But soon the public learned a lot about Sosthenes Behn...
...contracts as well. The revolutionary government of Spain talked loudly of canceling the agreement which, five years before, had given I. T. & T. its first major boost to prominence and profits. The fall in the exchange value of Spanish and South American currency told heavily on net earnings. Telephone & telegraph traffic declined. In Europe rose a rangy, six-foot competitor, Theodore Gary and his General Telephone & Electric Corp., backed by Transamerica Corp., largest of branch bankers. At home, Mackay-Postal was bravely bucking the competition of Western Union but could show no profit. Mr. Behn, who had watched...