Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservative Daily Telegraph stiffly noted that "the New Pecksniff and Nation" recently observed its silver anniversary by serving "champagne by the bucket" to a "seething, shrieking mass" of left-wing politicians and "statesmenlike women. Not the 'people at the top' perhaps; but where...
Sosthenes Behn, 74, stepped down as chairman and chief executive of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., but will continue as a member of the board and the executive committee. Chief executive will be I.T. & T.'s new president, Edmond H. Leavey (TIME, May 7). Hawk-faced Sosthenes Behn founded I.T. & T. in 1920, when he and brother Hernand bought a struggling Puerto Rican telephone company, built it into a $687 million communications empire that operates radiotelegraph circuits from Moscow to New Zealand, owns 33 manufacturing and research affiliates throughout the world. Behn came under fire from stock holders who charged...
Beyond Deserts. That night, in a little Italian restaurant called La Pantera, he had the bubblingest, headiest experience of all. Outside La Pantera, a full block at the foot of Telegraph Hill had been roped off and was jammed with jostling, laughing, folk-singing Italians, who drank free wine from paper cups and made the night ring with their cheers at Stevenson's simple statement: "I have come here to ask for your vote." While four cops wrestled to hold back the crowd. Stevenson struggled into La Pantera for dinner with Owner Rena Nicolai and her employees. They pushed...
London's DAILY TELEGRAPH...
...Edmond H. Leavey, 60, was named president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., succeeding the late William H. Harrison. Leavey, a Texan and a West Pointer ('17) with a civil-engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic, taught military science at M.I.T. and served as chief engineer for WPA before going off to war. He commanded the troops building the U.S. base in northern Ireland, then became chief of the Mediterranean base section in North Africa before going off to the Pacific theater to become deputy Army commander of the Philippines. There he signed for the U.S. at the surrender...