Word: telegraphe
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...Chicago Tribune's answer to A. R. Baldwin Jr.'s question has been: "Because it is the centre of the telegraph and the telephone lines, news goes to more places from Chicago than from any other city." It is also true that: Chicago newspapers have played-up Chicago's underworld most persistently and sensationally; Chicago's murders have been most sensational intrinsically (viz. the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929); Chicago has had fewer policemen and more nationally-known criminals per square mile than any U. S. city; crime in Chicago is more highly organized...
...that their governments may communicate with the government of a non-Empire nation "directly." Today if Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia wishes to communicate diplomatically with the Emperor of Abyssinia he must do so through the British Foreign Office in London. Under the new scheme he would telegraph what he wanted to say to the British Minister in the Abyssinian Capital...
Died. Frederick Perry Fish, 74, corporation and patent lawyer, onetime (1901-07) president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., onetime member of Harvard's Board of Overseers, member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation and executive committee, associate of Radcliffe College; in Brookline, Mass...
Tickets by Wire. Last week the 16 theatre ticket brokers accredited by the League of New York Theatres resigned in anger. And almost simultaneously the League, which includes more than 80% of legitimate New York theatres, announced that henceforth Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. will handle ticket orders through 125 of its offices in New York City. Postal will charge a 50? handling fee, will deliver reservation slips to customers' homes. 'About one-quarter of the tickets for each performance will be sold at box offices, may be taken by brokers. It has been possible in the past...
Such wholesale propaganda ought to be productive of results, although the methods have been subject to abuse by commercial interests. National Prune Week, Drink More Sauerkraut Juice Week, Mothers Day, Dads Day and other similar phenomena can all be traced to high pressure advertising. The hypocritical effusions of florists, telegraph companies, and haberdashers on such occasions are obvious enough in their intent to all but the softer minded and more naive devotees of Edgar Guest and other purveyors of mental pap. In a similar manner one might justifiably suspect that the backers of American Education are not altogether altruistic...