Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last August (TIME, Aug. 30), told to set it in good order, observers who knew McNinch wondered how long it would be before feathers began to fly. Last week they flew. As organized heretofore, the FCC consisted of three principal departments-Telephone, Telegraph and Broadcast, each with its own $7,000-a-year director. In Washington last week, Chairman McNinch announced that henceforth the seven-man commission would function as a single unit. Said he: "It is a cause of regret to the commission that the move to abolish the divisions automatically abolishes...
...jobholders in Washington had stronger political connections than the FCC division directors. John F. Killeen (Broadcast) was Postmaster General Farley's protege; Robert T. Bartley (Telegraph) is the nephew of House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn; A. G. Patterson (Telephone) was an assistant to Hugo LaFayette Black when he investigated air and ocean mail contracts (TIME, Oct 9, 1933 et seq.). Amiable Chairman Mc-Ninch said he would be glad to recommend all three for jobs outside...
Civil War Telegraph Operator Edward ("Little Rosie") Rosewater started the Omaha Bee ("Industry, Frugality and Service") in 1871 to further his dabblings in old guard Republican politics, carried the paper to national fame before his death in 1906. The politically powerful Bee began to slip under Son Victor Rosewater, did little better under millionaire Politician Nelson B. Updike who bought it in 1920, and was not helped when Updike merged it with the moribund Daily News, a onetime Scripps unit...
...director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Merrimac Chemical Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Stone and Webster, Inc., the Old Colony Trust Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the First National Bank of Boston, and numerous other companies...
...threatened to open to the public free, with no betting allowed, if his license had been revoked. At week's end the supreme court quashed the original ouster order, left Horseman O'Hara to face a Racing Division hearing this week. Mourned Manhattan's racing Morning Telegraph: "Narragansett is a one man race track. When O'Hara goes, Narragansett goes. And when Narragansett goes, it's the beginning of the end for racing in New England...