Word: telegrapher
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...like United Fruit and Jersey Standard often intervened in the internal politics of South American countries. Sometimes, to help promote their foreign interests, the companies could count on the diplomatic and military leverage of the U.S. Government. Those days are long past. But executives of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., the largest U.S. conglomerate, apparently yearn to carry on in the not-so-grand old tradition. The testimony in two weeks of hearings by the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, which showed how ITT and the Central Intelligence Agency conferred on ways to block the election of Marxist Salvador...
...tale of the attempt by the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to overthrow Chile's Marxist Salvador Allende unfurled last week before a Senate subcommittee. Armed with reams of memorandums, working papers and personal letters from ITT's files, a Senate subcommittee established that the strange tale essentially began in September 1970, immediately after Allende garnered a plurality of 36% of the vote in Chile's popular presidential election, virtually assuring him of victory in the three-way runoff in Congress the following month. ITT officials, motivated by both misplaced patriotism and fear for the future...
...have witnessed a series of major scandals in the last four years. The International Telephone and Telegraph anti-trust consent decree, the Russian wheat deal, the milk price fluctuations, and the first information about the Watergate affair all seem to have developed a tolerance in the American people for incredible corruption in their government...
Well-organized, methodical and a habitual notetaker at every policy discussion, Gray has been essentially a follower and a kind of supersecretary rather than a leader. He has also been an adroit backstage operator. When the Kleindienst nomination ran into controversy over allegations that International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. had been given favorable treatment by the Justice Department in the out-of-court settlement of several antitrust cases, Gray worked with the FBI in exploring the matter. Ironically, he had the duty of advising Kleindienst on how to handle questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee?a task that Gray himself...
...Wilson, who had taught him at Princeton, Lawrence broke the story of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan's resignation from Wilson's Cabinet. In 1915 he became Washington correspondent for the old New York Evening Post, which soon began sending his daily column to subscribers by telegraph; Lawrence took pride in claiming to be the first Washington columnist syndicated by wire...