Word: telegrapher
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...what he wants with the paper, may drop as many as 1,000 staffers from the Graphic's payroll. With the Graphic in hand, Lord Rothermere can wage a two-front war against 1) the Mirror, in the tabloid field, 2) the respected, full-size Daily Telegraph (circ. 991,092), which is owned by Lord Camrose, Kemsley's brother (TIME, Aug. 4). To wage his war, Rothermere can tone down his Daily Mail to lure readers from the Telegraph, jazz up the Graphic to fight the Mirror...
Bachelor Smith's showplace home, high on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, became a gathering place for West Coast visiting bigwigs and intellectuals. To San Franciscans, Smith and the Chronicle were as inseparable as ham & eggs. Once 40,000 names on a petition urged him to run for mayor; unions and businessmen gave him their labor disputes to mediate. Paul Smith, who stands 5 ft. 8 in. tall, had an eleven-word explanation for his success: "I'm just a little squirt anxious to be a tough...
...complaint about the disturbances members have been forced to install condensers in radios in the Dunster St. vicinity two and three times every week. "Sooner or later, we'll have repaired all the radios and have eliminated the difficulty, stated Domezi. According to him, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is repairing phones disturbed by the broadcast...
...combat; 3) threatened tin and rubber production, Britain's best dollar earners. A few months before, Communists had ambushed and killed High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, the topflight colonial administrator who had been sent out to put order into Malaya's civil service. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "The trouble [has been] not only murder, but mugwumpery...
...year-old daughter lying crippled on a cot. One knee was drawn up, the foot pointed down and the heel twisted outward. One paralyzed arm lay across her chest. The nursing sister had never seen a case like it, so she drove miles to a telegraph office and wired a doctor for advice. His reply: "Infantile paralysis. No known treatment. Do the best...