Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electricians swarmed through the cedar groves stringing telegraph wires and radio aerials. The U. S. Radio Commission notified Station WEBC at Superior that it might quadruple its wattage to assure good reception at the Summer White House...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft read the decision and was supported by Associate Justices McReynolds, Sanford, Sutherland, Van Devanter. He upheld the use of wiretapping evidence, said: "The United States takes no such care of telegraph or telephone messages as of mailed sealed letters. The amendment does not forbid what was done here. There was no searching. The evidence was secured by the use of the sense of hearing and that only. There was no entry of the houses or offices of the defendants. The language of the amendment cannot be extended and expanded to include telephone wires reaching...
...contracts were let to the world potent International Telephone & Telegraph Company, of which U. S. financier and Morgan associate Sosthenes Behn is President. The I. T. & T. is now in process of absorbing the Postal Telegraph and other companies of famed Clarence H. Mackay (TIME, April...
Died. Henry Seymour Berry, Baron Buckland of Bwlch, 50, Welsh financier and mining potentate; at Buckland, near Bwlch, Breconshire, when the horse he was exercising ran into a telegraph pole. England was waiting to hear of the completion of a merger of Lord Buckland's Welsh industrial and mining interests with those of Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond...
...They are American Telephone and Telegraph Co.; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.; Chase National Bank; General Motors Corp.; National City Bank; New York Central R. R.; Pennsylvania R. R.; Southern Pacific R. R.-' Standard Oil (N. J-); Union Pacific R. R.; U. S. Steel...