Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worry of the Future." Lenin organized not a people's but a plotter's revolution. One night, eight months after the February revolution, his men seized the key points in Petrograd. They grabbed the telegraph office in order to "telegraph the revolution to the provinces." Soon afterwards, a Lettish regiment (controlled by the Bolshevik Party) and the sailors of Kronstadt dispersed the freely elected Constituent Assembly in which his Bolsheviks had only a 26% minority...
...powerful trade sheet, the Hollywood Reporter (circ. 7,500). But last week Edith Gwynn's column was being syndicated. Seven newspapers had already signed it up: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Boston Post, the Indianapolis Times, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Morning Telegraph and the Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury...
...answer he gave himself, as he leafed along Boylston Street towards the telegraph office, was not entirely convincing. He recalled that he had vetoed the Princeton game last Saturday afternoon when, in accordance with an old habit, he had started to dedicate his first drink to some aspect to local football, and found himself completely stymied. This was unprecedented. Even in Charlottesville, a last minute inspiration had provided him with a toast to the battle of Gettysburg. But this time there was no such flashing light. So Vag had downed his drink in three gulps, quickly poured another, joined...
Ringing the Bell. Third-quarter earnings of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were $37,055,000, off $10,205,089 from the comparable period last year. The loss, said President Walter S. Gifford, would be offset in part by rate increases already granted in 26 states and asked in 15 others. Despite the lower operating profit and the heavy losses incurred during the strike last spring, A. T. & T. hoped to pay its $9 dividend again this year, and to be earning at that rate by year...
Before Bernstein spoke, Golomb urged members to telegraph Secretary Marshall endorsing the majority report of the special U. N. committee on Palestine...