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...Silver Purchases, authorizing the Treasury to buy silver in the world market until the monetary reserve consists of 75% gold and 25% silver. Railroad Pensions, for all railway employes above 65. Employes will contribute one-third, railroads two-thirds to the retirement fund. Communications Commission to rule telephone, telegraph, radio and cable companies. Deficiency Appropriations, providing $1,715,000,000 for unemployment and drought relief. This list of one week's accomplishments would have been enough for an entire session of many another Congress. It was not enough for the 73rd whose second session will be remembered...
...telegraph company stated that he could not be reached at the address given, 51 Fifth Avenue, and that the address was fictitious. According to an International News Service dispatch to a Boston newspaper in July, 1932, he was deported from England with his wife on the charge of "activities against the public interest...
...chances than that gave Dutra. But he was feeling too sick and tired to blow up. He played the last three holes with courageous caution, sank his third putt on the 18th green for a 293 and the title. He wobbled into the club house, sent Brother Mortie to telegraph their father, gave his caddy $150 of his $1.000 prize money, sat down on a bench and exhibited to reporters his box of pills. Said he: "I didn't think I would be able to finish...
...until after the i War. Then under a group of young Manhattan partners headed by John Wilson Cutler and the founder's son, Albert, things began to hum. Handsome, easy-going John Cutler, oldtime Harvard footballer, persuaded the firm to underwrite the first public issue of International Telephone & Telegraph common stock. New branches jammed its wire system with Stock Exchange commission business. Like all firms, Edward B. Smith floated some astounding flops but it managed to retain a large item of goodwill. Albert Smith died this spring, and Wall Street surmised last week that Joseph R. Swan...
...dawn on the morning of May 27, 1905 the newly invented wireless telegraph began to crackle and spit on a small Japanese warship: "The enemy's squadron has been sighted at point No. 203. The enemy is apparently steering toward the Eastern passage." About 2 p.m. a grizzled little man who had studied at Britain's Greenwich Naval College and well knew the Nelson tradition hoisted a fluttering ribbon of flags to the truck of his flagship...