Word: telegraphically
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...official and no underling could be found with enough spunk to fly to the Dictator and deliver this resolution. Hence it was sent by telegraph. Dictator Chiang had only one advantage. He was so far in the wilds of West China that not even a Japanese bombing plane was likely to molest him. Warily he set part of the troops in his personal pay moving slowly toward North China. That Chiang planned any serious resistance to Japan few Chinese dared hope, and he did not go with his troops last week but stayed behind in the city of Chengtu with...
...North China the cockiness of Japanese was such that when a Japanese officer motoring from Peiping last week observed that a single Japanese field telegraph pole had somehow caught fire he stepped on the accelerator, roared into Tientsin at 60 m. p. h. to report "the outrage." Soon a Japanese platoon had sallied forth into the very midst of hundreds of evacuating Chinese troops to "punish the offenders." The fact that four Japanese army scouts motoring in the wilds north of Peiping were detained by some Chinese officials overnight was reported in Japanese newsorgans under screaming headlines suggesting that "this...
...final detail. Old Mr. Zukor was given a berth as board chairman but key job of executive committee chairman went to Mr. Fortington. Picked for president was John Edward Otterson, 54, a tall, quiet, iron-haired onetime Naval officer who has long headed Electrical Research Products, Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's spectacular subsidiary. He it was who boosted A. T. & T. to its dominant position in the film industry's sound equipment field. His only hobbies are learned cinemas, showing, perhaps, the actual explosions in a gasoline engine or the development of a child from infancy to adolescence...
...Illinois and finally chancellor of New York University, Harry Woodburn Chase has devoted his entire career to rescuing people from ignorance. Last week in Manhattan, Chancellor Chase uprose to dedicate a memorial tablet to his institution's most famed professor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph. Explaining that early 19th Century scientists held long distance telegraphy to be a physical impossibility, the Chancellor declared...
...Samuel F. B. Morse's ignorance of the best scientific thought a century ago saved him from impediment in his early experiments with the telegraph. . . . Had Morse been a physicist with a physicist's specialized knowledge of [contemporary] theory ... it is quite possible that his great plan of making the universe 'by kingdom right wheel' might never have passed beyond the stage of a dinner table conversation. It reminds me of the validity of a recent saying by Mr. Owen D. Young that our greatest assets are the things we do not know...