Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gate to northern Loyalist Spain behind them. A few fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge of the rock-bedded river which separates Puigcerda from the French border village of Bourg-Madame. All of Catalonia was theirs. On the other side of the river, less than 500 yards away, several thousand Loyalist soldiers dumped their arms and ammunition into piles...
American District Telegraph Co. Council Bluffs, Iowa
Most revealing index of the nervous condition of a nation lies in sales records of sleeping powders. Last fortnight an unnamed Berlin correspondent of the London Telegraph and Post showed that the fiery speeches of Adolf Hitler were giving Germans the jitters, keeping them awake all night. The rise in sales of German sleeping powders during the last two years, he wrote, has been "phenomenal...
Residents of Walter Hastings Hall, Law School dormitory, are no longer observing the parietal rules concerning women in the rooms with their traditional grain of salt; for the grapevine telegraph has spread the word that the authorities are from now on going to enforce the letter...
Died. Edward W. ("Doc") Smithers, 69, chief White House telegrapher; of heart disease ; in Washington. Telegrapher Smithers started under McKinley in 1898. In 1909 President Taft gave Doc Smithers the gold telegraph key used ever since by Presidents to open bridges, dams, highways...