Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such was the tension of the times that a perfunctory, offhand remark of the President to the effect that commodity prices were not yet high enough sent reporters running to telegraph wires, sent Inflation headlines into the streets, sent stock-markets soaring for one hour last week...
...enterprises that continued to function. The all-important sugar mills, with their season's grinding half done, ignored the strike but their activity was menaced when the railways stopped. Two open-shop Havana newspapers kept publishing. Soldiers, marines, police and strikebreakers ran a few street cars, the radio, telegraph and the main Havana postoffice, the docks, power plants, water works and tax collection offices. That was all. Most Government departments, which President Mendieta had filled with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked out, leaving inmates to themselves. Crowed bantam Generalissimo...
Instantly 65-year-old Mahatma Gandhi reached for his pad of telegraph blanks, sent out a circular wire to leaders of the Indian National Congress, demanding a general mobilization of protest "since this child is unquestionably unfit to marry a man of such ripe years." Hindu reporters, most of whom have a sneaking sympathy for such bridegrooms, described the rejuvenated Hindu as "defiant," as "resolved to have his rights...
Divorced. Tallant Tubbs, Republican opponent of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo in 1932; by Mrs. Olivia Pillsbury Tubbs, daughter of President Horace Davis Pillsbury of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
From Surplus. For the third consecutive year the world's largest private corporation failed to earn its regular dividend ($9). American Telephone & Telegraph and affiliates announced 1934 net income of $5.96 a share ($111,000,000) against $5.38 the year before. The regular dividend had been paid by drawing upon surplus, now $21.50 a share. President Walter Gifford announced that during the year A. T. & T. had perfected a new telephone which has the bell and other equipment in the telephone itself instead of in a separate...