Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most serious stockholders' revolt in the history of 88-year-old Western Union Telegraph Co. was staged last fortnight by Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto, who popped up at the annual meeting (at which President Roy Barton White announced a 1938 loss of $1,637,000). Mr. Flatto declared he had proxies representing 250,000 shares and did not like the present management. After a stormy session (TIME, April 24), the meeting adjourned while the proxies were counted. Last week President White announced that the management slate received 531,812 votes, the Flatto opposition...
...afternoon last week in the assembly room on the 23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered...
...back to the good old antebellum days grandpa used to hark back to so often, we find they had very little of the political and economical ailments with which we are so sorely afflicted. We will find, also, that they had no telephones, telegraph, airplanes, radios, television, automobiles, and such trains as they had would not run faster than 25 miles per hour...
...Times and Telegraph & Morning Post obediently printed no word of the speech. The Daily Express carried the speech for one edition, then wavered and cut it out altogether in a second, in a third merely hinted at it. The Daily Mail first quoted Lord Stanhope's words, then withdrew the quotes but not the story. Only the Liberal News Chronicle decided to publish story and quotes. The news was a shock to the public, an alarming indication of how close the Government believed war might be and how unheralded its arrival...
...White's article smoked out considerable idle curiosity and some idle capital. By last week he had received, by telephone, telegraph and mail from all over the land, 150 inquiries. Some of the inquirers: politicians, butchers, lawyers, realtors, a junk dealer. Most appeared to be merely window-shoppers, but some asked whether they could swap unspecified possessions for a college; one man was prepared to invest...