Word: telegrapher
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...Armor & Arms Club's first president in 1921 was the late Bashford Dean, arms curator of the Metropolitan Museum. Now numbering 50 men, probably its best known member is Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay who owns one of the finest private collections of armor in the world. The members are scholars who have written learned papers on almost everything from Japanese sword-guards to lobster-tailed helmets...
...only by Germany's Hitler is Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin. Two Sundays ago the radiorating priest climaxed his battle against the World Court. In the course of his regular afternoon broadcast he appealed thus to uncounted millions: "Today, whether you can afford it or not, telegraph your Senator in Washington this simple, vital message: Vote 'no' on the World Court with or without reservations...
...flooding into Washington. Messengers carted them by wheelbarrow loads to the Senate Office Building. Pennsylvania's Davis and Guffey were enjoined to vote against the Court by the Squirrel Hill Station, Pa. Sunday School. As the flood mounted Western Union was forced to hire 35 extra clerks, Postal Telegraph...
...galleries cheered. Jubilant Hearstlings tumbled over each other in their rush to telephone San Simeon. No less than 15 Senators telephoned congratulations to Detroit. Local telegraph offices announced that since Father Coughlin's first speech two days before they had handled over 60,000 telegrams beyond their ordinary quota...
...declare war on Kaufmann's since the store was a bountiful advertiser and had made no move to reduce its newspaper budget because of radio expense. Instead the publishers fired protests at the Press-Radio committee which restrained them from broadcasting news themselves. Hearst's Sun-Telegraph was reported to have filed formal notice with the other publishers that, beginning Feb. 1, it would consider itself free to broadcast as much news as it cared...