Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making no effort to coin a deathless phrase, Edward of Wales last week inaugurated London Post Office's new telegraph rate of nine words for sixpence by wiring his father: "I have the honor to address Your Majesty in this inaugural telegram at the new rate of nine words for sixpence. Edward...
Married. Sosthenes Behn II, son of the late President Harnand Behn of International Telephone & Telegraph Co., nephew and namesake of its present president; and Camilla Marvin, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
Early in the Depression, dapper, white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., and his wife, who was Opera Singer Anna Case, closed their 50-servant "Harbor Hill" mansion on Long Island, ousted their superintendent from his snug, white lodge on the grounds, moved into the lodge. Last week the Mackays prepared to move back to "Harbor Hill." For the present they will open only the south side of the mansion, keep a skeleton staff...
Equally indispensable to bookmakers and their customers are racing sheets like Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph, Cincinnati Racing Record, which have made Publisher Moe Annenberg a millionaire, and which in New York City alone receive 200,000 telephone calls daily from bettors asking racing information. Most valuable ingredient in such publications is a feature, completely unintelligible to uninitiate readers, called a "past performance chart" which for every important race run in the U. S. reveals the complete competitive history of each entrant...
...body was the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file of Chambermen-men like U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, American Telephone & Telegraph's Walter Gifford, Chase National Bank's Winthrop Aldrich, General Electric's Gerard Swope-the so-called Roper Council drops into the White House for frequent Sunday evening chats. Radicals regard it suspiciously as a hotbed of Fascism...