Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worried. U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers had not been heard from in Spain for four days. He was not at the summer embassy at San Sebastian but a few miles away at his own villa at the narrow little seaport of Fuenterrabia. Was he alive? The engine room telegraph rang up more revolutions...
...Music, mostly classical, predominates in its schedule. The Corporation pays ordinary performers poorly but will go as high as $2,500 for a broadcast by someone like Maurice Chevalier. Best thing done by B. B. C. is the production of radio drama. News bulletins are supplied by Reuter, Exchange Telegraph Co., Press Association and Central News. When B. B. C. got a scoop on the announcement of the Duke of Gloucester's engagement (TIME, Nov. 11). the Press yowled so loudly that everyone concerned agreed that such a thing should never happen again...
...Since that struggle, however, man's inventive genius released new forces in our land which reordered the lives of our people. The age of machinery, of railroads, of steam and electricity; the telegraph and the radio; mass production, mass distribution. . . . Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. . . . "There was no place among this royalty for our many thousands of small businessmen and merchants. . . . They were no more free than the worker or the farmer "It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes...
...some 30 Jews killed. "The daily average of attacks by firearms in Palestine," continued the Colonial Secretary, "runs from ten to 15. Attacks on roads and railways have averaged eight daily. There have been from five to ten bombings daily and an equal number of attacks on telephones and telegraph installations. The British Government has not been and will not be moved by intimidation and outrage...
Born. To Songwriter Irving Berlin, 48, and Ellin Mackay Berlin, 32, daughter of Postal Telegraph's Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay: their third daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth. Sisters: Ellin, 9, Linda...