Word: telegraphe
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...with a chief in Florida able to execute his will in Chicago, he wins the unthinking approval of the American public as does the broker who controls the market from his country estate, or the president who starts giant turbines two thousand miles away by a touch on a telegraph key. The speeding fire engine, the pursuing police patrol, or the fleeing armored car are alike in pursuing their objects fast, noisily, and "efficiently." After all, aside from aims and standards, the successful criminal represents much that is worthy per se: certainty as to goal and attainment through careful planning...
...Gordon Bennett the Elder was dead, succeeded by his son as publisher of the Herald. Joseph Pulitzer was about to leave St. Louis (after one of his editors shot a prominent citizen) to go to Manhattan and, as things turned out, to buy the World. Frank Munsey was a telegraph operator in Augusta, Me. Edward Wyllis Scripps had started his Penny Press in Cleveland three years earlier; young "Bob" Scripps and Roy Wilson Howard were not born. In Chicago the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (Tribune) astounded its readers by printing in a single issue the entire New Testament, just...
...eight general managers of Western Union Telegraph Co. last week received Circular Letter No. 467-31 from their colleague, Superintendent Frederick W. Lienau. Mr. Lienau, now Western Union's contact man with state and national rate-making bodies, once engaged a Harvard man whose job was to probe into Western Union's letter files all over the country to see that good English was being used by the company. Schooled at Heidelberg, versed in German, French and Greek. Contact Man Lienau is still a stickler for proper English usage. Now he had apparently been pained beyond endurance...
President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union also let himself into print last week. He was asked about the possibility of a merger between Western Union and Postal Telegraph now that they have joined hands in the Teletype business to compete against A. T. & T. (TIME, Nov. 30). Merrily he replied: "The Constitution forbids us to marry, but there is nothing to keep the Western Union and the Postal from Holding hands. Of course, when two persons sit on a haircloth sofa holding hands there is no telling how far they will go. ... But as for a merger, well there...
Permit me to give the solution of the mystery to TIME: A railroad telegraph operator, retired on account of failing eyesight, owned a couple of collies. His home is near the two great westbound main lines of the B & O and Big Four (beyond these tracks flows the Ohio River). One day a train killed one of his dogs. He knew of the accident, and instead of burying his pet, left that job to the section-crew. But somebody took the lifeless body, strung it up and built the fire as described to me by the policeman who discovered...