Word: telegrapher
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...only seven years old." Last week, opposite the Glatt's house in Newark, N. J., a bright new mailbox ap peared on a telegraph pole. It was still across the street and much too high for Bunny, but for once proud Mrs. Glatt stretched a point. While she watched for cars, Bunny carrying an empty wooden box. darted across, stood tiptoe on the box, proudly posted another letter to the President...
...another trick up their sleeves. One night high-flying planes dropped men by parachute behind the Finnish lines. The Russians had tried this on a small scale early in the war, but this time there were scores of men. They were armed with light machine guns, tools for cutting telegraph wires, portable radio sets...
...dozen French governments 50-year-old Georges Bonnet has held such Cabinet posts as Minister of Pensions, Commerce, Public Works, Posts & Telegraph, Finance. He was also once sent as French Ambassador to Washington, where he was scheduled to talk about a compromise on the defaulted French war debt to the U. S. Nothing ever came of that, and social Washington remembered him best for his pretty, English-speaking wife Odette, whom wags called "Oh, debt!" M. Bonnet is tall, parrot-nosed, looks like Cinemactor Ben Turpin...
...between the Army and R. A. F., so is there friction between R. A. F. and the Royal Navy. Last week Admiral Sir Roger Keyes let go in the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post a salvo at R. A. F.'s general failure to understand and assist the Navy in its problems. In particular he lamented the failure of airplanes to follow up the submarine Salmon's discovery and crippling of a German sea squadron last month. The submarine had to dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip...
...wrote a long volume of gibberish called Mythology in the 20th Century, which few Nazis could decipher and fewer non-Nazis wanted to. As the editor of the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter he predicted that when Hitler came to power "Jewish bodies will hang from every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." Above all, he incessantly repeated that Bolsheviks were "Jewish criminals" and that the German path of conquest lay logically to the East, towards Soviet Russia...