Word: telegraphe
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Finally the Conservative Daily Telegraph ably summed up London's reaction to Chicago thus: "Scenes like these have never occurred in Europe within the mem ory of the living, and couldn't possibly occur. We are looking at a social organization which has united the riches and luxury of the most modern civilization with the manners and customs of particularly disorderly mining camps...
...lighthouse keeper carried their first message by walking across the Strait ice to the telegraph station at Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. A message went to Point Armour, where one William Barrett operated the wireless station. That first message announcing the Atlantic crossing was for the North German Lloyd steamship offices in Manhattan. The line had provided money for the flight...
...almost a detriment. In contrast to the professions, it has been felt that a business career does not require intellectual keenness of the sort that colleges seek to develop in their students. In this connection, therefore, the conclusions reached by Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in an article in the current issue of Harper's Magazine are particularly arresting...
...were substantially identical. To an impartial civilian it was clear that both the accused had acted from commendable motives in complaining against a superior whose conduct had been well nigh unbearable. This view was taken by practically the entire London press, last week, including the usually antithetical Conservative Daily Telegraph and Laborite Daily Herald. At Gibraltar, however, the Court held to the unwritten law of Navy discipline and found both the accused "guilty." Both were sentenced to lose their active commands and to go on half pay until the Admiralty shall see fit to order them once more to active...
This triumphal return was set off and made the more notable by a furious counterblast of criticism from the British press of Hongkong. There the South China Post, the China Mail and the Hongkong Telegraph all insinuated that Minister MacMurray had settled on "too lenient terms," in order that the U. S. Republican party might point to a diplomatic victory on the eve of a U. S. presidential election...