Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered 30 bagpiping contests during the last nine years, won 25 of them. Honors in caber-tossing (throwing forward in a half circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down several times so contestants could balance it. Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping...
...fortunes in rubber; Lawyer Julius B. Baer; Jerome Chester Cuppia, partner in E. A. Pierce & Co.; and Jerome Lewine, partner in H. Hentz & Co. A fifth venture, the Burlap & Jute Exchange, was a failure. One year ago the Commodity Exchange moved to its present quarters in the International Telephone & Telegraph Building, a few doors west of Hanover Square. On its first anniversary, the Exchange had handled almost a billion and a quarter dollars worth of sales.* Seats originally valued at $900 are now worth...
Donald S. Bridgman of American Telephone & Telegraph: The one big reason the Bell System is not taking on any college men at this time is because the reserve of young men which we did not need in 1929 and which we took on was sufficient for about ten years...
...Board of Education sent a telegram to RFC. The Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter. The City Council and the Rotary Club adopted resolutions. At least five other organizations pleaded by telegraph and mail. Thus last week did Toledo get behind a move to push through a $2,000,000 loan from the RFC to Willys-Overland...
...Brown Derby by John J. Raskob in 1928. Still unpaid were some bills incurred during the 1932 campaign which put Franklin D. Roosevelt into the White House: $47,650 to Columbia Broadcasting System; $170,571 to National Broadcasting Company; $13,565 to Western Union; $14,122 to Postal Telegraph; $18,067 to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel for campaign headquarters...