Word: telegraphically
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Hooked into a communications circuit to relay their warnings were the lines of 15 local telephone companies (to the vast pride of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s C.P. ["Old Man Mac"] McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At Craven County was ebullient Tom Haywood, who won brief fame by inventing a rotary kicking machine for citizens who should kick themselves. At New Bern was Cap'n Tom Daniel, 72, who at 52 insisted on fighting in the last war, came home minus...
...produced $15,000,000 in cash and bought himself the 107-year-old Republican Philadelphia Inquirer, the Main Line Old Guard hardly knew who he was. Most of Moe Annenberg's millions had come from publications rarely seen in Bryn Mawr: Daily Racing Form, New York Morning Telegraph (a sporting sheet), Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories. His immensely profitable Nationwide News Service, Inc., which supplies sporting and racing news by telephone to all comers including bookies, was not as well known to men who haunted stock brokerage offices as to those in poolrooms. Even more disconcerting...
This week, ex-Friend Pegler's book, The Dissenting Opinions of Mister Westbrook Pegler, was published.* Of its 85 reprints of his daily diatribes, only two were written without his scalpel. One is an ecstatic appreciation of Walt Disney. The other, a testimonial to telegraph operators, amazed even its author. "I am not very good at singing praises," he concludes, "having very little practice, and I hardly know what has prompted me to this extraordinary outburst of sweetness toward my fellow man. Just call it a change of pace...
...well known associate of Samuel Morse in building the new telegraph lines which were beginning to mushroom up throughout the country. He made his first large profit of $6000 on the New York-Albany line. In 1885 Ezra and other owners of the Middle Western lines formed the Western Union Telegraph Company, on which company he served twenty years as a director, and of which for more than fifteen years he was the largest stockholder. Then, financially secure, he turned to public affairs and became trustee of the infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished...
Today in the stadium there will be a football game. The Vagabond will be there. The newspaper men will also be there. And the modern successors of the telegraph lines which Ezra helped Morse to string along the tree trunks between Washington and Baltimore will be chattering up above, sparking out the account of the game between the Big Red and the Big Crimson. But the Vagabond, psychic youngster that he is, will sense the presence of Ezra by more than the metallic clicking in the press box. Ezra, he knows, will be very much present on the opposite side...