Word: telegrapher
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London newspapers were so anxious to tell their readers that Winston Churchill was TIME'S Man of the Half Century that two of them, the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard, came out with the, news ahead of TIME...
...industries expropriated was the U.S.-owned subsidiary of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. I.T. & T.'s Central European representative, U.S. Citizen Robert Vogeler, and its Budapest manager, Briton Edgar Sanders, were arrested seven weeks ago and charged with organizing a widespread espionage ring. In response to this "arbitrary and inhumane" action, the U.S. has forbidden its citizens to visit Hungary (TIME, Jan. 2), and Britain has broken off trade negotiations with Budapest...
...criterion is that the Western should not be adulterated with extraneous, non-western material. "Buffalo Bill" worries about the problems of old age in America, "natural" vs. "scientific" medicine, journalistic responsibility, and the degradation of royalty as it wallows in its plot; "Western Union" sticks to putting up its telegraph line. "Buffalo Bill" gapes for minutes at a time at its overdressed heroine--it was a dour day when someone discovered that Alexis Smith in tights, watching a bar-room brawl, could pull in millions of dollars from audiences that had formerly found Westerns beyond comprehension...
Other new faces in new jobs last week: K. Taylor, who went to work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. as a stenographer in 1921, was elected assistant secretary, the first woman in A.T. & T.'s history to hold that...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's wealthiest corporation ($10 billion in assets) wants to make all of its 600,000 workers stockholders. Last week, as A.T.& T. authorized a $200 million bond issue for sale to the public, it also offered 600,000 shares of common stock for sale only to employees, at $20 below the market price (145½ last week). A.T.& T. hopes to raise more than $60 million, plans to spend the money on new telephone installations. This is the third postwar stock offering to A.T.& T. employees ; there are already...