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Last year, distinguished guests included the presidents of the New England Telephone and Telegraph and the Boston Elevated Railway. This year, pertinent to the problems of shortage of machines for national defense, the program will include the head of a large tool firm...
Died. Clarence Clark Hamlin, 72, Colorado newspaper publisher (Colorado Springs Gazette and Telegraph), lawyer and onetime Republican leader; after a stroke; in Colorado Springs, Colo...
...hell!" The speech was over. Announcers again smoothly announced that not C. I. O. but the National Committee of Democrats-for-Willkie had put up the $45,000 for John Lewis' 30 minutes. Burly William Stevenson, a Detroit tool & die maker, handed a wire to a Postal Telegraph clerk: ". . . As far as we are concerned, you can go to hell." The clerk demurred; Mr. Stevenson reluctantly compromised on "go to Hades." C. I. O. autoworkers roared, cursed, rebelled. So did bigwigs in Mr. Lewis' mine union, in C. I. O. Vice President (and Defense Commissioner) Sidney Hillman...
...legend since ascribed to many a newsman was born in Halifax, N. S. about 1849, when Correspondent Daniel Craig, gathering news from abroad as steamers entered the harbor, kept the telegraph wire open by handing the operator a Bible to transmit. Other episodes recorded by Historian Gramling...
...When the telegraph outmodes the pigeon, Reuter tightens his belt, sticks to his ideal of making the world smaller. He convinces even the archbacked London Times that it should subscribe to his-the first-news service...