Word: telegrapher
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Last week Vichy was the hastily fortified ghost capital of a rapidly dissolving Government. Outside the town, French Forces of the Interior were in control. Telephone & telegraph lines were cut, road and rail traffic halted. Inside, the futile skeleton of what had been Marshal Petain's Government click-clacked through motions of governing which were really a dance of death...
...hallowed walls of F-31 are resounding with the refrain of Dave Blumberg's new song, "I Was Raised to the Tune of the Telegraph Key" or "Shoot the Loco' to me Koko." This little ditty should prove popular with all who are interested in Transportation (alias the glorification of the R.R.'s). Therefore, a conservative estimate places the net circulation of the new ballad at approximately...
Again, the Silent. Two hours before Pittsburgh, a Sun-Telegraph reporter boarded the train, begging the heroes for heroic tales. Two hours later he left, mumbling: "I didn't get a thing...
This money went into his tuition at the University of Michigan, where he kept adding to it by working as telegraph editor of the Michigan Daily. At college he pulled down A's in history, economics, and rhetoric without any midnight oil, but he was much more excited by the discovery that he had the best baritone voice on the campus. The first victory of his life came easily in the Michigan State Singing Contest (in the nationals, he placed third), and he cut a middling campus swath as head of the Glee Club, a leader of the music...
...four Music Box Revues, adding Say It with Music and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody to his long list of hits. He had amassed a fortune of $5,000,000, enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue-stocking wife (author of Stone of Destiny) had grown up at Harbor Hill, the $6,000,000 country estate at Roslyn, L.I. that tough old miner John (Comstock Lode) Mackay gave Clarence Mackay for a wedding present...