Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both these systems send telegrams in the U. S. Both send cables overseas, this being an especially large part of the Mackay business. But, as not everyone knows, the only U. S. communication company owning extensive telephone and telegraph wires in foreign countries as well as extensive cables between many countries is the International Telephone & Telegraph Co.,* the creation of Sosthenes Behn and J. P. Morgan...
...military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house of Morgan behind him and has lately be come the foremost U. S. promoter, inter nationally, of a foremost U. S. art (the fast message...
Photographs of Sosthenes Behn are not easily had. But anyone may regard at leisure the groomed, handsome visage of Clarence Hungerford Mackay in any of the thousands of offices of the Postal Telegraph Co. His father, the late John W. Mackay, rough-palmed Irish '49er, found gold in California river beds and bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection...
Victor sells a phonograph with a R. C. A. Radiola contained.† It also has the right to use R. C. A.'s research, as well as General Electric's, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing's, American Telephone & Telegraph's and Western Electric's discoveries in the field of acoustics & sound reproductions...
...only with the merging of great telegraph and telephone systems was Clarence Hungerford Mackay busied last week (see p. 34); the merging of great musical organizations in Manhattan also occupied...