Word: telegrapher
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...lynching party stood him up on a box, roped him to a telegraph pole and told him to jump. He refused. They kicked the box out from under him and the rope parted. They grabbed him, put a ladder against the pole, forced him up, strung him up again and yanked the ladder away. George wrapped his arms & legs around the pole and hung on. But George eventually got tired, and the lynching was a success...
...companion named "Dutch Charley" Burris bushwhacked two of them, killed them, and also stole their horses-about as low a crime as a man could commit. Dutch Charley was lynched almost as soon as he was caught; Big Nose George managed to survive until that night on the telegraph pole...
...weeks, word was whispered around Wall Street that Western Union Telegraph Co. common was a good buy, although the company had not made a profit for two years. Wall Streeters snapped up the stock so eagerly that it rose to 28, a 33% advance since the first of the year. Last week, the good news came out: although Western Union's operating revenues were off almost 5% to $42.3 million, the company had a net profit of $236,766 for 1950's first quarter v. a $2,550,878 loss for the quarter...
...national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
...depends on whether or not local bookies have access to the Capone-controlled "wire services," vital to the continued operations of gambling syndicates on an interstate, regional, or national basis. In the Citizens Committee report it is stated as axiomatic that, "without control of 'wire services' or other related telegraph and telephone service, syndicated gambling would break down into local 'small business'" which could be dealt with by local police if the police were so inclined to act. Before a Senate Investigating Committee last week, magnate Frank Costello admitted that outlawing of the "wire service" would halve bookmaking business...