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Starting with an admirable prelude which describes America at the time of the "Sarajevo incident", on down through the cutting of the German cables by the Allies in the early weeks of the war, through the first of the ever greater private loans to Britain and France, through the first...
British deference to Raja Brooke kept the story out of staid London papers and off the cables. Last week it broke as irrepressible picture services showed the world Raja Brooke's daughter and her bridegroom cutting their jazz wedding cake (see cut).
The testy irishman entered the telegraph & cable field solely to annoy Jay Gould, who had characteristically crossed him in a business deal. Allied with the equally testy Publisher James Gordon Bennett, who shared his animosity for the sly manipulator of Erie-R. R., John Mackay strenuously laid cables and strung...
As the clouds mounted to the upper edge of the sun, a fan of golden cables swung down over them into the far hills that rolled about this New Hampshire valley like the broken rim of a cup. The Vagabond, brushing wearily through the weeds of the fiat fields paused...
The day after England declared war on Germany the German cables were cut; from then on there was "nearly absolute Allied command over all channels of communication and opinion." Sir Gilbert Parker, head of the British bureau "responsible for American publicity." handed out to delighted U. S. correspondents free articles...