Word: telegrapher
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Meanwhile Mac Wallace handed the Governor an ultimatum: Coke Stevenson must telegraph each Regent requesting that he explain in open meeting the basis of the Board's decision. If not, the students would "sit down" on the Capitol lawn. Said Coke, "I've been around the campfire long enough to know you can't drink coffee out of a boiling...
Moonlit Mackerel. When Franklin Roosevelt appointed Fly to the FCC chairmanship in 1939, FCC was a seven-man tangle of bickering members. Its job was to regulate radio, telegraph and telephone communications, but it was not having much success. Radio, as Fly saw it, was a newly rich business which had little idea of its public responsibility. It was, he decided, a "duopoly" dominated by two national networks (NBC and CBS), and Fly set out to break...
Walker's words flashed across 7,000 miles of ocean via U.S. Army Signal Corps circuits to San Francisco. And there the monitors of the Blue Network picked them up-recorded them-wrote them down-and wired them east by fast overland telegraph-to reach TIME'S editors in New York in less than an hour's time...
...India-paper edition of the government-blessed London Times, distributed free to 250 Americans; after that, Lord Beaverbrook's mammoth Daily Express began sending over a full-sized, newsprint daily; last week, the first copies of an India-paper edition of Lord Camrose's conservative Daily Telegraph & Morning Post breezed...
...shaded town of McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,212), the telegraph office was swamped with wires, and the florists ran out of flowers before noon. The first citizen of McCook, an old radical named George W. Norris, was dead...