Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then, with little direction from above, he has played a sharp game in Philadelphia journalism. Soon after the purchase of the Ledger (1913), the Evening Ledger was founded. Then the Evening Telegraph was merged with the Evening Ledger. Then the Ledger absorbed the North American and the Press. In 1925 Publisher Martin broke into the tabloid field by founding the Sim to compete with the News (MacFadden-operated), which had sprung up that year. The Sun failed two years ago. The only Curtis-Martin paper outside the home town is the New York Evening Post (bought...
Front pages instead of financial sections last week headlined the most important annual report, that of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Salient facts regarding the Bell system (Western Electric and Bell of Canada not included except as investments) were...
...nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled, all for sale. To a man whose business career had been continually occupied with reorganizations and mergers, the appeal of such a show was instantaneous. As attorney for the late August Belmont shortly after...
...affairs political, scientific, artistic. Founded in 1920 by Maurice R. Robinson, The Scholastic has a circulation of 110,000. Its vice president is G. Herbert McCracken, head football coach at Lafayette College (Easton, Pa,), its board chairman Augustus K. Oliver, onetime owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph. Scholastic promised that it would not alter "St. Nick" for the present...
...Postmaster General under President Benjamin Harrison (1889-93), he "established pneumatic tubes, ship-posts, pioneered for rural delivery, parcels post, postal savings, and fought for government ownership of telegraph and telephone." In 1896 he bought out A. T. Stewart, went into business in Manhattan...