Word: telegraphically
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...Treasury agents arrested George and two other men in Boston, then sped to Worthington to confiscate a complete counterfeiting setup in Humphrey's cellar, including $5,500 in inexpertly printed $10 and $20 bills, as well as negatives and plates for making Canadian currency and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. stock certificates...
Britain's weekly Punch, then 112 years old, was acting its age when ex-Newsman (Daily Telegraph) Malcolm Muggeridge became the first outsider to take over the editor's chair in 1953. Muggeridge swept out the stale sweets of fuddy-duddy whimsy, reverted to an older Punch tradition by installing tartly satiric views on topical issues (and late deadlines to keep right up with them), brought in name contributors and able critics, all but abandoned the moss-grown cover for bright and varied modern ones. He even succeeded frequently in making Punch what Englishmen never expected...
...with an art that was as cool as its reception. For many years Artist Morse had a hard time making ends meet. So at 41 he abandoned his father's principle of attending to one thing at a time to resume tinkering with electricity. The principle of the telegraph was in his head. After a decade of tinkering Morse achieved what he was after. Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives, he saw the bill passed authorizing him to string some experimental wire between Washington and Baltimore, and 15 months later -on May 24, 1844-he flashed...
...Scouts and of a Savings Bond drive. Last week Fort Worth learned just how extraordinary Jack Hubbard's talents were. A federal grand jury indicted him on charges of willful misapplication of bank funds, false entry, conspiracy to violate national banking laws, misuse of mails and interstate telegraph wires. Possible loss to seven banks, including Fort Worth's suburban River Oaks State Bank, of which Hubbard became president last year...
...capabilities. And out of the frustration came a steady pressure for the quicker techniques of totalitarianism. Kerala State on the Malabar Coast has already elected a Communist administration; a Communist-Socialist coalition rules the city of Bombay. Fortnight ago, faced with a nationwide strike of postal and telegraph workers that might spread to 400,000 government employees, Nehru himself rushed through Parliament a bill outlawing strikes in "essential industries...