Word: telegrapher
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...stump, but would campaign by radio from the capital. The radio-casters* threw up their hands in supplication and distraction." The trouble was, it seemed, that the candidates wanted to use national radio hookups, which at that time would have overburdened the wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. To remedy the situation, a radio-company official suggested that candidates limit their speeches to one section of the country at a time, beaming industrial talks to eastern cities, farm speeches to farm areas, etc. Then he offered this additional counsel: "If the campaign managers will take the advice...
...Communists suddenly confronted the U.S. and Britain with huge bills ($14 million for the U.S., $4,650,000 for the British) for telephone & telegraph service between West Berlin and West Germany, as they had during the 1948 Berlin blockade, and demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...
...were some riots and train delays in outlying towns, but in Paris, ordinarily the showcase of Red agitation, the streets were quiet and transportation was almost normal. M. Brune announced that only 2% of the C.G.T.'s membership had answered the strike call. Of 240,000 postal and telegraph workers, only two walked out-and were instantly suspended...
Close the Eyes. There are lively descriptions of the early Vanderbilt Cup races, in 1904, 1905 and 1910, which were denounced from the pulpit but drew crowds like a magnet: "Louis Chevrolet wrapped his Fiat around a telegraph pole on Willis Avenue . . . Harold Stone, driving a Columbia, leapt the Meadowbrook bridge and shot into the mob, killing his mechanic and injuring a mixed bag of bystanders...
...recited the polished sentences into a Dictaphone, and soon they will be teletyped into the offices of the Herald Tribune on 41 st Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm of certainty...