Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Susan Myrick, Associate Editor and Farm Editor of the Macon Telegraph, probably the only woman in the nation to serve in this capacity, swings more influence with Middle Georgia farms on soil conservation than anyone [and] is regarded as the best informed and most helpful person in the area on agricultural problems...
PEYTON ANDERSON Macon Telegraph Publisher...
...Macon Telegraph (circ. 34,000) had as many readers as the Kudzu Kid's Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000), Publisher Anderson's case for his farm editor would carry more weight. It is nevertheless true that Sue Myrick, born & raised on an oldtime cotton plantation, knows the answers to many Southern questions.* Her pet promotion is soil conservation, and she has done much to popularize the Blue Lupine, as Cope has the Kudzu...
During the last year, Russia's ex post facto craving to lead the world in discoveries and inventions has reached the proportions of a national mania. Not content with claiming the airplane, telegraph, radio and electric light as Russian inventions, Soviet propagandists have been staking out their claims in every branch of the arts & sciences. Among the many Russian scientists who "were discussing" evolution long before Darwin, say the propagandists, was the 18th Century scholar, Mikhail Lomonosov. Scientist Lomonosov was quite a fellow; he also invented the helicopter and developed the theory of conservation of energy...
...Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission also heard Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Lord Rothermere (Daily Mail), Harry Guy Bartholomew (Daily Mirror) and 17 other witnesses, studied financial reports, and thumbed through sheafs of clippings...