Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of the decision: "We are disappointed . . . but it will not make any change in our policy. . . . Tap ping or otherwise tampering with telephone lines is an unlawful trespass upon the property of the companies which they will continue to resist. ... An act of Congress, such as the Chief Justice refers to, would exclude evidence obtained by government agents in this...
Enthused, confident, Her Grace ordered an immediate start for India. The plane rose heavily, snapped four telegraph wires, winged its way to Sofia, Aleppo...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph-Cable...
...years ago Japan mortally feared and hated the U. S. and all the Occident. But Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in 1853 successfully "urged Japan to join the modern comity of nations." In a flurry of trepidation and prayers the Japanese received his suggestions, sewing machines, toy trains-and a telegraph...
...telegraph set was in many ways the best gift that Commodore Perry gave in 1854. The West knew very little about electricity at the time. Scientists and mechanics were still experimenting. And the Japanese learned with the rest of the world...