Word: telegrapher
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...every Chinese shopkeeper stands a breath-sipping Japanese "adviser." By squeeze and by theft the Japanese have drained the area of every commodity, so that prices have tripled. Greatest machine of exploitation has been the North China Development Company (capitalization: $105,000,000), which got control of everything from telegraph offices to coal mines. They ground Chinese cotton farmers so hard that many stopped growing cotton: production fell from 853,120,000 Ib. in 1937 to 173,290,000 two years later...
Squeeze-Out? Meanwhile Army and civil officials were removed from high posts or shifted from important centres. Others, including Mexico's air ace General Alfredo Lezama, were arrested. Almazán-istas were dismissed from key posts in the telegraph, radio and telephone services. Political circles buzzed over a rumor that General Francisco J. Mugica, close personal friend of General Almazán, had been invited by U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels for a long conversation. General Mugica had been prominently mentioned as a compromise President to break the present deadlock...
...heads the Ministry for Press & Propaganda and so determines what Spaniards learn. He controls the police and so determines who shall live free or in prison. He heads the Ministry of Government (Interior), which now includes the Ministry of Communications, and so controls the post office, telephone, telegraph and cable systems. He heads the Falange Española Tradicionalista and so bosses Spain's sole political party, its 2,000,000 members, 800,000 associated female Falangistas and 600,000 Falange youths...
...declares, "has to be the result of a conjunction between the creative power of mechanism of the North and the creative power of the South coming from traditional, deep-rooted Southern Indian forms. It is interesting that the two inventions which most aided the U. S. industrial revolution, the telegraph and steamship, were perfected by two artists, highly important in their day, Morse and Fulton. Thus the artists led off the industrial revolution and now that the revolution has reached the saturation point, industry is leading the trend back to art. Conditions for the perfectly functioning machine are precisely...
Hungary began censoring outgoing postal, telephone and telegraph traffic. Yugoslavia, having sent 120,000 reservists ._ ne, recalled them. Prime Minister Cvetkovitch formed a National Cabinet. Chinese reported a Japanese plan to take Shanghai. Russia enigmatically exchanged Ambassadors with Italy while rushing heavy motorized forces into Lithuania. Immediately after II Duce's speech, Turkey's President Ismet Inonii, Premier Dr. Refik Saydam and Foreign Minister Sukrii Saracoglu consulted with the Allied Ambassadors. All Turkish military leaves were canceled. Turkey, bound by mutual assistance pacts to the Allies in case of any aggression in the Mediterranean area, announced she would...