Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is one of the most damaging indiscretions in the records of responsible journalism!" promptly blazed London's Liberal News Chronicle. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's stanch supporter, the Conservative Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, declared: "No more sinister blow could have been struck...
Lofty was the niche shared last week by Gordon and Norris Blodgett, 21 and 18, of Hollywood. Into a downtown Manhattan telegraph office clacked Gordon and Norris, with important-looking documents in hand. "Stamp our papers, quick," said Gordon. "We've set a new transcontinental roller-skating record-seven weeks, three days, four hours and two minutes." Carrying packs labeled HOLLYWOOD TO NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR ON ROLLER SKATES, they had crossed the U. S. without accepting a hitch, had worn out 192 wheels, had arrived seven months, 23 days early for the opening of the Fair...
...onetime heir to the Spanish throne, who in 1933 renounced his right of succession to marry first one commoner and then another; of his family disease, hemophilia,* brought on by injuries when the car in which he was being driven by a night-club cigaret-girl smashed into a telegraph pole; in Miami, Fla. In accordance with directions cabled by his royal parents, he was buried on the spot, with simple Catholic rites...
...paupers, Jehovah's Witnesses could well afford last week to hire wire and wireless telephone facilities from American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for a hook-up between Royal Albert Hall in London and auditoriums in 23 U. S., ten Canadian, ten Australian, four New Zealand cities. In those auditoriums, according to Witnesses' calculations, were gathered 100,000 listeners while, in Albert Hall, Judge Rutherford faced most of England's 5,000 Witnesses and 5,000 outsiders who had come to hear what it was all about...
...Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials) was published in the June QST, American...