Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utilities were in for one of their worst spells of political badgering. In Washington the Federal Trade Commission, in the eighth year of its holding company probe, released a fresh batch of hair-raising findings. The new Federal Communications Commission announced a thoroughgoing investigation into American Telephone & Telegraph Co. A.T. & T. stock promptly plunged $10 per share, and President Walter Sherman Gifford felt impelled to assure his security holders that there were no skeletons in the $5,000,000,000 A.T. & T. closet. And President Roosevelt's trip through the Tennessee Valley, with his warm praise for TVA wonders...
Miss Frances Horowitz, a blondined and thirtyish telegraph operator, paced & paced & paced her top floor flat at No. 914 51st St., Brooklyn. "I'm sick! I'm sick! I'm sick!" moaned Frances Horowitz. "I have nothing to say. Nothing to say, except that I'm sorry. Oh, I'm so sorry. I made a great mistake! A great mistake...
...Philippine independence from the U. S. was well on the way toward reality; he confidently expects to be the Islands' first President; he had kept Senora Quezon in Manila from worrying by entering the hospital under the name of Pedro Lopez; he had tormented the billion-dollar American Telephone & Telegraph Co. by attempting to charge to unaccredited "Pedro Lopez" $300 telephone calls to Senora Quezon. And above all, Urologist Hugh Hampton Young had just removed from the left Quezon ureter a good-sized stone shaped like Senor Quezon's middle initial...
...truck with euphemisms. Well did he know that if the Filipinos, no prudes, ever caught him in a lie, they would certainly suspect him of suffering from a disability worse than gallstones. Therefore shrewd Politico Quezon ordered Dr. Januario R. Estrada, his personal physician and traveling companion, to telegraph a full and simple description of Dr. Young's operation to the Philippine Press. United Press helped Dr. Estrada by cabling to Manila at reduced press rates the following astonishingly frank report...
...last week that the facts did not amount to murder. The Boer jury pondered, brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation for mercy. The judge sentenced Mrs. Selwyn to twelve months in jail, her servants to one month. By that time the giraffe's injury to the telegraph line had been repaired and the news went...