Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telephone & telegraph...
...China every War Lord is jealous of every other, and the Generalissimo is no exception. His reaction was to telegraph rebukes to both Han and Liu, ordering them to stop fighting, but supporting the rights of neither. Ineffectual Chiang's telegrams were ignored. But after 72 hours of the hottest fighting into which two Chinese armies have pitched for years, they did stop. There had been the usual Chinese deal, probably put over with the usual bribes...
Another good omen last week was a sudden increase in telegraph business, so pronounced that Western Union felt it had to tell the public. Each of the company's eight geographical divisions did better than the week before, the average increase in business communications being between...
...President Hoover held another relief conference at the White House last week to mobilize private charity to carry the jobless through another winter. In 1930 he set up for this purpose an organization headed by Col. Arthur Woods. Last year Walter Sherman Gifford (American Telephone & Telegraph) was drafted by the White House for relief duty. This year Newton Diehl Baker is chairman of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization Conference composed of 29 organizations like the Y M. C. A., the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, the Association of Community Chests & Councils, the Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Baker...
...Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano's stout fists, Mussolini put the post office, the telegraph, all the railroads and last year all the shipping, of Italy. It was Count Ciano who arranged the mergers of Italy's greatest shipping lines, thereby saving from ruin not only the lines but also the big hanks which were heavily tied up in them. He it was who rushed...