Word: telegrapher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Flying Snoopers. The $7,000,000 haul was the greatest train robbery in history, and far surpassed the 1950 Brink's truck robbery in Boston, which netted $2,775,000. In Australia, the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "It proves that the homeland of Dick Turpin and Charlie Peace is not decadent. Britons may not admit they are proud, but in private many are thinking, 'For they are jolly good felons...
...Telstar act constituted an enormous gift to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which was allowed to acquire a controlling interest in the Federally-chartered Communications Satellite Corporation. A.T.&T. thus added to its already indecently long list of monopolies the exclusive rights over international communications via orbiting space vehicles. There seemed to be no justification for this giveaway beyond a mystical belief in the inferiority of government enterprise to private enterprise--in this case a private venture consisting solely of the expectation of huge profits, but without the trouble-some details of capital investment, risk, or that free competition...
...both London and Moscow, there was considerable confusion about the important Soviet official who defected to the West 18 months ago, was thoroughly interrogated in the U.S., and is now a resident of Britain. The man's name was given as Anatoly Dolnytsin, and the Daily Telegraph alertly noted that a diplomat of the same name had served for nine months in the Soviet embassy in London. Moscow's Izvestia then got into the act, insisting that, far from defecting, Dolnytsin had left his London post in 1961 and had been working ever since at the foreign ministry...
...days after Grover Cleveland was nominated for the presidency in 1884, the Buffalo Telegraph revealed in a lead article, headlined "A Terrible Tale," that Cleveland was the father of the nine-year-old son of Maria Crofts Hatpin, a widow. Cleveland did not deny...
...separate-but-equal" status in at least one area. For years many Dixie newspapers have printed separate Negro and white editions, splitting press runs to drop in pages of news for each community. "Negroes like it because they get more attention," claims Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News, where the practice is still in effect (as in Augusta). "We print their deaths and funeral notices, a hospital report, club meetings, birthdays, lodge notices, social and personal news...