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Word: telegraphically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Mexico City, the Government press bureau announced that Mexicans may now telegraph complaints direct to President Lázaro Cárdenas, free of charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Press Lord No. 4 is Julius Salter Elias, Lord Southwood, a onetime errand boy who has high-pressured his undistinguished Daily Herald to the 2,000,000 mark. No. 3 press lord is Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post* (700,000), a Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...comparatively new and far more sedate Telegraph building is only a few doors from the Express. Fleet Street wags have compared them to a stockbroker taking his mistress to dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Last week Dr. William Leiserson, acting as special arbitrator, ruled that Western Union and Postal Telegraph must up pay of 15,000 em-loyes to 250 per hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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