Word: telegraphe
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...United States . . . publishing books apart from textbooks . . . is a luxury business. ... Publishers have suffered for years from a form of megalomania which has made them feel themselves potential General Electric companies, American Telephone & Telegraph companies and United States Steel corporations. ... In the average American community there are not enough people who will buy sufficient books to make his [the bookseller's] volume big enough to give him a living wage...
High in a Manhattan office building is the Havana Post's new news bureau. No newshawks rush in and out. No telegraph instruments chatter. Its one-man staff-stubby, genial, bespectacled Carl Chandlee Dickey, onetime Columbia journalism instructor, an editor of World's Work, Mc-Clure's-has in fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose...
...inherited leadership of Roosevelt & Sons from his father, James Alfred, bril liant Civil War banker. Most remembered of his financial operations was the formation of Mexican Telegraph Co. and Central & South American Telegraph Co., later merged by him into All America Cables, Inc. In 1925 he achieved a measured prominence by stoutly championing a receivership for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, permitting himself at that time one of his few essentially quotable phrases: ". . . An open wound demands attention. A scar does...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, onetime wife of the late Edward R. Thomas, New York Morning Telegraph publisher: Colonel Lytton Gray Ament; at Reno, Nev. Introduced to each other at Washington in 1926 by Queen Marie of Rumania, they were married secretly, went to Rumania as guests of the Queen, honeymooned royally, romantically...
...dark days at Atlanta. He can almost be excused for skimping over Debs' whiskey drinking and the "free love" scandals of Socialism. The Author. Me Alister Coleman, 42, New York City Socialist, was a newsman for four years on the New York Sun. Pub licity work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. made him a radical. He now publicizes for the United Mine Workers (Springfield faction [TiME. March 24]). He reported the Scopes trial, the Herron trial, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial for labor papers. Politically minded, he ran for Alderman fn 1927, for U. S. Senator...