Word: telegraphe
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...English ironmaster, father of the late Gertrude Bell (explorer of Egypt and Arabia); in London; of a chill. Died. Otto Mears, 91. Colorado hero, in Pasadena, Calif. Because he was a pioneer railroader (onetime president of Denver & Rio Grande), a pioneer builder of such state-wide projects as the telegraph system, and a member of Colorado's first legislature, his stained-glass portrait hangs in the State Capitol's dome, Denver...
...candidates nominated throughout Spain last week "less than 20 are Monarchists" according to an Exchange Telegraph. Thus the new Parliament was expected to draft a Republican Constitution for Spain. But furious fights loom as to the character of the new Republic. Shall it be, as Catalonians and Basques demand, a union of federated states like the U. S. and Germany? Or shall it be, as central and southern Spaniards insist, a republic like France, highly centralized, composed not of sovereign states but of subordinate provinces...
...Sosthenes (Greek for "life strength") Behn went to Spain where he saw an opportunity to make his International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation more international. In Madrid he encountered much excitement. Bidding against him for the Spanish telephone system were Ericsson Co. of Sweden and Siemens & Halske of Germany. Col. Behn cabled for a corps of U. S. engineers, accountants and typists, shut his troops in a hotel suite, sat up many a night writing newly modified contracts. After strenuous haggling that lasted nearly a year. Col. Behn obtained ex-King Alfonso's then valuable signature, and, consequently, a potent toehold...
...Rican sugar plantation. When the Porto Rico Telephone Co. fell into the hands of a friend who had accepted it in payment of a bad debt, the Behn Brothers took it over, combined with it the Cuban telephone system a few years later. They have been accumulating telephone and telegraph systems the world over ever since.† I. T. & T.'s most noteworthy purchase in North America was the Mackay companies which included Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., bought in 1928. Col. Sosthenes, the more glamorous half of the Brothers Behn, acquired his title during the World War when...
...Washington and said that Undersecretary Castle might announce that Col. Lindbergh and wife would soon fly to the Orient-"if the press was interested." The press was interested and scampered, hundred-legged, after the Lindberghs. Publicity-wise cities on the Pacific coast -San Francisco, Seattle, Ketchikan, Alaska-employed the telegraph to urge their airports upon the flyer as the "logical jumping-off point" for his flight. The known facts...