Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January, there had been no rain at the little cable port of Santa Elena since 1919. Marshes about the village had long been withered dry. Cattle, unfoddered for months, were shambling bags of bones, the sheep and goats desperately gnawed bales of paper ticker-tape thrown out by the telegraph company...
...Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas Pacific, the ron Mountain- together with the Western Union Telegraph Co. He bought arid sold and sometimes he ruined, but he always profited. After a time, he turned to more constructive practice, planned a great ocean-to-ocean railroad system- the Western Maryland, the Wabash, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Missouri Pacific...
...into Pittsburgh for the Wabash at a great price. When the panic of 1907 came, several of the roads were in poor condition, went into bankruptcy and George Jay was obliged to go to his enemies for money. He lost control of the Missouri Pacific, of the Western Union Telegraph Co., of the Denver & Rio Grande. He lost the Western Pacific, the Texas Pacific. Meanwhile, his losses had aroused his brothers and sisters, who succeeded in ousting him from control of his father's estate. The fight is still on, although George Jay died nearly two years...
Tick went the telegraph wires ; came a message from Governor Walker of Georgia to Judge Bynum, counsel for the Memorial Association. "See," the Governor requested the Association, "that requisition papers are withdrawn." Thereupon Governor McLean of North Carolina telegraphed Governor Walker congratulating him upon the "wisdom and patriotism" displayed by his request. President Randolph and his committee held counsel, withdrew the requisition papers, adding, with arrogant explicitness, that they wished "to give notice that the withdrawal of this application for extradition does not in any way mean that there is the remotest possibility of Borglum ever resuming work on this...
Died. Colonel Robert C. Clowry, 87, onetime (1902-10) President and General Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan, in his stateroom in a train just arrived from Florida...