Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawks scurried for the door. Telegraph keys began to click out news that jostled President Roosevelt's Green Bay speech for No. 1 Press position. Trading in silver futures was promptly suspended on Manhattan's Commodities Exchange. With the Government as prospective owner of all silver at a fixed price, silver brokers were out of a job. The news flashed to Wall Street, and speculators, thinking of inflation, began to sell U. S. bonds until the Government hastily came to their rescue with bids higher than the prices at which they were for sale. The news flashed to London...
...hundred and eight convicts escaped from North Carolina prisons and prison camps last month. Each day into the office of the Durham Herald-Sun ticked A. P. dispatches from Raleigh naming the runaways, giving details. For 24 July days Telegraph Editor John R. Barry bit his pencil for a new headline to put over such repetitious news. By the 25th he gave up and subheaded "TODAY'S ESCAPES" over the Raleigh dispatch. By last week "TODAY'S ESCAPES" had become one of the most familiar standing heads in the Herald-Sim. Under it last week was chronicled...
...West Pointer, who was Morgan's nominal commander, disliked him, disapproved of his aims and methods. But Morgan's gallantry and success in raiding through Kentucky and Ohio soon made him a bogeyman to the North, a hero to the South. One of his tricks was to capture a telegraph station, send fake messages to foil the enemy. Once he wired to his disgruntled pursuer: "Good morning, Jerry! This telegraph is a great institution. You should destroy it as it keeps me too well posted...
...clerks will labor at this mighty bookkeeping for three years. More than 1,000,000 checks have to be made out, signed and mailed. And not until last week did Federal judges in Chicago fix the fee for the three lawyers who outsmarted the legal battalion of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., biggest corporation in the U. S. As just compensation for their victory, the court awarded them 7 1/2% of the takings...
...Daughter of Socialite Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph. Two months after her story appeared she married Composer Irving Berlin...