Word: telegraphe
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...made it his hobby to obtain a profound grasp of all the secret machinations and counter-machinations of the Socialist and Reactionary irregular armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister in an adjoining country somewhat exceeded their authority...
...White House President Hoover touched a gold telegraph key that officially opened a $5,800,000 bridge across the Columbia River, connecting Oregon and Washington at Long View, Wash...
...publication's career began in 1905 when Editor Silverman left the New York Morning Telegraph because he would not comply with his boss's wishes about a theatrical review. Variety's first field was the vaudeville and burlesque profession. From the start its impertinence made good friends and bad enemies. Longest and bitterest struggle the sheet had was with the late Edward Franklin Albee, from whose theatres and booking offices Variety reporters were barred because the weekly rushed to the defense of wronged Thespians on every possible occasion...
...economist, adviser to the U. S. Senate's Finance Committee; at Washington; of a malignant growth in the throat. Son of the late, tariff-writing Representative Nelson Dingley Jr. of Maine, he wrote many a magazine article on the tariff, was active in Michigan politics, formerly published the Kalamazoo Telegraph, the Kalamazoo Press. Early this winter the Senate Lobby Committee revealed that Mr. Dingley had received from the American Tariff League $1,541 for supplying research information on tariff activities and for contributing unsigned articles to the league's American Economist (TIME...
...nine foreign countries does International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. operate telephone systems.* Last week it added a tenth country to its list by buying control of Constantinople Telephone Co., once the Anglo-French Societe Anonyme Ottomane des Telephones de Constantinople, and long, for no apparent reason, a favorite of I. T. & T.'s shrewd president. Col. Sosthenes Behn. I. T. & T.'s next international move will be established next month by radio telephone communication between the U. S. and Argentina...