Word: telegrapher
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...according to the Government's charges, Hallinan reported only 20% of his law income. Furthermore, he wrote off as business expenses a gymnasium and a swimming pool in his Telegraph Hill dacha. Other deductions included boxing and tumbling lessons for his six sons...
...Over Telegraph Hill, in downtown San Francisco, Christmas shoppers and homing office workers honked angrily in the season's worst jam. They cursed Mike Gaffey and they cursed his men-for not keeping the traffic moving...
Sins of Omission. In U.S. dailies, Britain is still far and away the leading subject of foreign news. The coverage of Britain in the U.S. press, says London Daily Telegraph U.S. Correspondent Alex H. Faulkner, "is highly impressive both quantitatively and from the wide range of subjects covered, [although] a picture of Britain that is both adequate and interpreted . . . exists only in a few American newspapers...
...work only a few months of the year, started with Anderson, Clayton at 18 as a stenographer, rose to salesman, branched out into foreign operations, and has been executive vice president since 1945. ¶Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's manufacturing and supply company, replacing Stanley Bracken, 63, who stepped up to chairman. Kappel, who worked his way through the University of Minnesota ('24) waiting on tables and playing the trap drums in a dance band, started with the Bell System by digging holes, setting poles...
...Bach!" he exclaimed to a reporter for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. "Listen to this." And the room, wrote the reporter, "was filled with liquid sound, mellow, golden," as Kapell turned to his keyboard. But Kapell had his fill of Sydney critics; it was goodbye forever. "I shall never return," he said...