Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Establish a Communications Commission to regulate telephone, telegraph and cable companies as the I. C. C. now regulates railroads; already passed by the Senate...
...Cabinet fell and he was told to form another, the Zveno boys got busy. While Sofia slept, the officers of the city garrison reported at barracks for orders. By companies the Army marched softly into the streets, occupied public squares, politicians' homes, power houses, telephone and telegraph offices and the railway stations. Premier Mushanoff tried to get a telephone number, shouted impatiently into the mouthpiece: "Premier Mushanoff speaking here!" A mysterious voice replied: "You're not Premier any more." Soon he heard the roar of airplane engines swooping over the city. Outside officers barked commands boldly...
...Music Box Revues ran for four years before Irving Berlin met Ellin Mackay, pretty young daughter of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. and an ardent Catholic. Social New York made a great to-do when it discovered that Mr. Mackay's daughter was serious about the songwriter who made no bones about his East Side background. Irving Berlin went quietly about his business, wrote "Always," the song which coincided with their engagement. If it were true that lately he helped his father-in-law to the tune of $1,000,000 Irving Berlin would...
Last week the following were news: In a first-class fighting vessel there are three complete and parallel communication systems. If one is disrupted in battle, another immediately goes into service. In the U. S. also there are three communication systems-two telegraph companies and, for all practical purposes, one telephone company. Last winter Western Union upped a retired British rear admiral named Charles Penrose Rushton Coode to vice president in charge of European operations. Last week not Postal Telegraph but a sister subsidiary in its International Telephone & Telegraph System made a retiring U. S. admiral its active head. Mackay...
...fast mile at Rugby and Sandhurst. He was gazetted in the 16th Lancers, was almost constantly in Persia and Baluchistan for 26 years after 1893 but went to the South African War, was wounded and decorated. He explored parts of central Persia, surveyed it for a telegraph line, established three consulates, was the first European to climb Tartan and Bazman volcanoes. When German agents and Turks were stirring up the country during the War, he took command of 3,000 untrained natives, handily restored order. Other books: A History of Persia, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia...