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...Congress the President sent a special message recommending that a Federal Communications Commission be set up having power over telegraph, telephone and radio similar to the powers which the Interstate Commerce Commission has over railroads, the Federal Power Commission over electric companies. Said he: "In the field of communication, there is today no single Government agency charged with broad authority...
Science in industry was defended by Dr. Jewett, onetime associate of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson. To buttress his defense he had declared that when American Telephone & Telegraph (of which he is a vice president) installed dial telephones, no girls were thrown out of work...
Students flocked to Hanover's telegraph office, read the list of the dead. They recognized most names. William F. Fullerton, 20, had been an editor of the Daily Dartmouth. Americo De Masi, 20, had been college fencing champion. Edward N. Wentworth Jr., 21, had been on the soccer squad. Harold D. Watson, 21, had sung in the glee club. So it went down the list: Edward and Alfred Moldenke, 21 and 20, only sons of a Manhattan pastor; William M. Smith Jr., 21; Wilmot H. Schooley, 20; John J. Griffin...
...Through Postal Telegraph, Chicago University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins three weeks ago had a birthday message sung over the telephone to his wife. Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," stopped it. Through Western Union one can send any of twelve prepared birthday greetings, have notes, letters, orangeade, sandwiches delivered by messenger, subscribe to TIME. Last week Western Union added a new service when it agreed to accept packages at all of its offices for shipment through the Railway Express Agency. At no extra cost Western Union messengers will call for packages up to the value of $250, take...
During the bull market American Telephone & Telegraph paid no extra dividends, split no stock, put all its extra earnings into surplus. By 1932 that surplus was big enough to have paid each & every stockholder $31. That year, when A. T. & T. and affiliates earned only $5.96, President Walter Gifford took $58,000,000 out of surplus, paid his 700,000 stockholders the customary $9 dividend...