Word: telegraphe
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...Rape of the Mace." Almost too much for British editors was this desecration of the Mace. The august Time's editorial, "The Rape of the Mace" was an attempt at urbanity but the editor of the Daily Telegraph (Conservative) let himself go completely, openly deplored the presence of Rules Chairman Snell and other U. S. Congressmen* in the Gallery of the House when the sacrilege occurred. The distracted Telegraph said: "One hopes they understand that the Mace in no sense represents the authority of the Crown. It is purely a parliamentary symbol representing the determination of the Speaker to uphold...
Died. Oliver Sylvester Hershman, 71. oldtime Pittsburgh publisher; after an illness of three weeks; at Pittsburgh. In 1873, Publisher Hershman started on the Evening Telegraph. He acquired a majority interest, merged the Telegraph with the Chronicle, published the combine as the Chronicle-Telegraph until 1900 when he bought The Press. In 1923 he sold The Press to Scripps-Howard...
...Activity was noted last week on International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s. Rumanian and Chinese fronts: on the former, victory; on the latter, defeat. Rumania's new King Carol approved the telephone monopoly granted the I. T. & T. by Parliament. The monopoly agreement is drawn up along the lines of the I. T. & T. Spanish concession. In China, on the other hand, the National Government last week termed invalid the franchise recently acquired by I. T. & T. to operate the telephone system in the International Settlement and the French Concession in Shanghai. The Chinese Ministry of Communications wants to take over...
Summoned by telephone to the Manhattan office of Col. Henry Breckenridge, counsel for Col. Lindbergh, were representatives of the approved list: the Sun, Post, World, Times, Herald Tribune, Telegram, Associated Press, United Press, Brooklyn Eagle, Acme News Pictures, Inc.? A "tip'' of such proportions cannot escape the grapevine telegraph for many hours. The meeting time found the invited ones augmented by newshawks from the Journal, American (Hearst- papers), Mirror, News, Graphic (tabloids...
...shares of Hearst consolidated common, the voting stock, all of which Mr. Hearst will hold. In exchange for all its common stock, Hearst Consolidated acquired from Publisher Hearst eleven largest and most profitable" of the 24 Hearstpapers: the New York Journal, Chicago American, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Detroit Times, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Oakland Post-Enquirer, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Herald, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, American Weekly.* Aggregate net profit of these properties for 1929 was $12,854,626.69; their funded debt is $38.547,500. Their net profit from 1926 through 1929 averaged...