Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover sent word to Secretary of State Kellogg, in Washington, that he wished to communicate with him directly over a special radiotelegraph hookup. Secretary Kellogg went to the State Department's telegraph room. Mr. Hoover stood near a key in the Buenos Aires embassy and dictated what he wanted to say. Secretary Kellogg read the messages as his operator typed them out. He dictated replies. The substance of the conversation was that Mr. Hoover was enjoying himself among courteous friends; that President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg and the U.S. people were glad to hear it and thanked the friends, sent...
...eaters in the U. S. is practically a daily constant, and because from the banana comes such useful commodities as banana oil, the United Fruit Co. (Manhattan) has developed many square miles of banana plantations near Santa Marta. Here the company owns a railroad (28 miles), has its own telegraph and radio stations, maintains a hospital, employs 200 U. S. citizens, about 19,000 native workers...
...nest and gave birth to a litter of small rats. Last week Mike Scaffano drove his car into the middle of Burlington; perturbed, the rat crawled into the front seat, and up the trouser leg of Mike Scaffano. Dismayed, frightened, severely bitten, Mike Scaffano drove his car into a telegraph pole...
...exchange. Mouth watering, Fisk conceived the shrewd scheme of hiring a fast clipper to start for England the moment Lee surrendered, sell hand over fist until official news of the defeat, then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before the official report of Southern defeat. The only reason that Fisk and his capitalists...
...telephone and telegraph for the dean's office, more money was spent two years ago than during any of the other four considered in the present survey, $826.75 having been taken from the University purse during...