Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though the President does not like criticism from Business, observers credited him with taking pains not to give Business too much offense. Soon the new Federal Communications Commission will begin a $750,000 investigation, instigated by Montana's sharpshooting Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, of huge American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Were a ruthless, inquisitorial Pecora hired as the Commission's special counsel, Business would have shuddered. Instead, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina, a conservative liberal who now has a rich corporate law practice, was persuaded by the President last week to take the job. With...
...pull the sledge. One day he fell through the ice, twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said he: "I guess Mother is worried about me. Mail has been a bit uncertain...
...Long Distance Building of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan, President Walter Sherman Gifford picked up a receiver, asked to speak to Vice President Theodore Gazlay Miller. Fifty feet away in another office sat Vice President Miller. But the operator plugged President Gifford in on Dixon, Calif. There a short-wave radio transmitter amplified his voice some millions of times, "sprayed" it over the Pacific. At Java a Dutch station picked up the Gifford voice, blew it up another billion times, broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas...
...speeded by the well wishes of the mob, the Colonel outdid himself in consummating the capture alive, in contrast to his epic adventure with the skunk last spring. Fred Hoeing, notorious woodchuck tracker, Harvard's other big game hunter, last night sent the Colonel his hearty congratulations by telegraph, collect...
Next week American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a dignified one-hour radio broadcast. In Washington, however, the new Federal Communications Commission is preparing to mark A. T. & T.'s golden jubilee in livelier fashion. Armed with a $750,000 appropriation, the Commission is already at work on an investigation of the telephone industry for the benefit of the U. S. Senate, which discovered to its amazement that A. T. & T. had never been put under the Congressional microscope. President Walter Sherman Gifford says there are no skeletons in his closets, and last week...