Word: telephotoed
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...headed by Teacher Mary L. Leitch of Hyde Park High School, with Lawyer Aaron Sapiro of Chicago & Manhattan as counsel. Three weeks ago the teachers received $2,224,143 in real cash, bringing their salaries up to April 1. Last fortnight the Chicago Herald & Examiner obtained from Germany by telephoto a letter from junketing Mayor Anton Cermak authorizing the issuance of $6,750,000 of tax anticipation warrants, some of which were paid to teachers who had refused city "scrip" last summer. Many Chicago merchants and landlords accept tax warrants...
...cuts his hair which is still dark. Simoncelli must be silent, for the Pope snoozes. For nasty weather, Pius XI has a pure white raincoat, with galoshes to match. If he wishes he may go motoring, for he has many automobiles. He has also famed radio Station HVJ, a telephoto service, a new elevator to replace the Vatican's old hydraulic lift. Cows used to browse in the Vatican gardens, but these along with the Vatican horses are to be sent out to Castel Gandolfo in the Alban hills. Cosy, chummy modernity is the note; but the Swiss Guards still...
...despatches at night by the light of a flashlight. And less than 76 hours after the earthquake, U. S. newspaper readers and cinemaddicts 2,000 miles away were looking at pictures of the disaster. Specially chartered planes flew films of rival agencies via Havana and Miami to Atlanta whence telephoto machines flashed them on. Picture men boasted: "A record...
...from Publisher Hearst's secretary: "Some of the papers are printing trivial items relating to Lindbergh. ... As he has shown himself distinctly unfriendly, Chief cannot see any reason for helping any publicity efforts relating to him. . . . 'Trivialities are not news'." The picture, hot off the telephoto, an apparently exclusive shot by the Misses Selby and International News Photos showing Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh, Mother Anne, Grandma Morrow and Great-Grandma Mrs. Charles Long Cutter. Fearfully the Hearst editors stalled for time, each waiting to see what the other would do with the picture. Finally they "played...
...drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film and modulates the tube current, which is transformed into the sound waves of Miss Shaughnessy's best accent. The manual operator listens, plugs in the call, does not even have to say "Thank...