Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employers like General Motors and Chrysler arranged to cash their own pay checks. Utility and insurance companies waived penalties for late payments. The Post Office Department rushed $5,000,000 from Washington to cover withdrawals from postal savings accounts and to honor money orders. Western Union and Postal Telegraph brought in cash from adjoining States to handle a flood of funds telegraphed to Detroiters...
Awarded. To Hernand Behn, president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet...
There he let it be known that he had a commission. A number of rich citizens of San Francisco had given him money to carve a gigantic statue of St. Francis of Assisi for the top of Telegraph Hill-San Francisco's arty quarter. Sculptor Bufano acquired three enormous blocks of Swedish black granite and went to work...
Because Poet-Laureate John Masefield's U.S. manager booked him for only one lecture in Canada, the Toronto Telegram headlined: A LION ON A LEASH AND THAT LEASH U.S.A. Newsmen recalled the New York Telegraph's headline upon the occasion that the late Poet-Laureate Robert Bridges refused interviews in the U.S.: KING'S CANARY REFUSES TO CHIRP...
What Chancellor-elect Chase plans for N. Y. U. he did not announce last week. He will, perforce, ponder its growth in 101 years, from the time that Samuel Finley Breese Morse there developed the telegraph and Professor John William Draper took the first photograph by sunlight. In 22 years under Chancellor Brown the enrolment grew from 4,175 to nearly 40,000 (including part-time students); the faculty from 282 to 1,800; the schools and colleges from eight to 12, including the important Graduate School of Business Administration. N. Y. U.'s endowment grew in proportion...