Word: telegraphe
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...pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands. They went systematically about the business of keeping the Orangemen out of Cootehill. One squad wrecked the meeting hall. Others tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command of the town, marching and countermarching in the streets, directing traffic with a flourish of their hurleys...
...from Berlin, an electrically wired artillery shell exploded beneath it. Nine cars were hurled from the track, rolled down the embankment. Fifteen people were seriously wounded; miraculously, no one was killed. In the dining car a cook was hurled into a cauldron of consomme, critically scalded. Nailed to a telegraph pole near the track was a front page of the Fascist Der Angriff. Some one had scrawled across it: ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ASSAULT! LONG LIVE REVOLUTION...
...their attempt to beat the world-girdling record of Post & Gatty failed at Khabarovsk last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 10) wealthy young Hugh Herndon Jr. and hard-bitten Clyde Pangborn decided to slip down to Tokyo and try a nonstop flight to Seattle for $53.000 prize money. They thought to telegraph the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo for permission to fly over and land on Japanese soil, but neglected to wait for a reply before taking off. That was a grave mistake...
Fair and John W. Mackay, father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Hungerford Mackay. Said to be richest claim in the world, the Comstock yielded $340,000,000 pay dirt between 1864 and 1884, brought Fame & Fortune to the combination of Mackay, Flood, O'Brien & Fair...
John Mortimer Schiff, 26, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., succeeded his father, the late Mortimer Leo Schiff, as a director and member of the executive committee of Western Union Telegraph Co. Director Jay Cooke was also added to the executive committee...