Word: telegrapher
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France's Assembly angrily called the Government's attention to its demand that relations with Franco be broken. French postal, telegraph and telephone workers voted a 24-hour suspension of service to Spain in retaliation for the execution of the Communists...
...predicted, Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co. reported "a complete blackout" of its transatlantic signals. Other radio concerns struggled mightily and got some messages through. The astronomers looked knowing...
...examine the [Paige Type-Setting Machine]. ... I reckon it will take about a hundred thousand machines to supply the world, & I judge the world has got to buy them-it can't well be helped"; "Rush that brass [stamp]. Don't let a moment be lost. . . . TELEGRAPH ME A RESULT OF SOME SORT IN 24 HOURS...
...four-page austerity diet. Like them, it has gained in readability from the newsprint shortage that forced British editors to sharpen their pencils and their wits. Less flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ. 196,000), although in all England only the Manchester Guardian comes close...
Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...