Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ministerial Association of Greater Cincinnati urged employers "to place first in their plans for yuletide parties the rightful emphasis upon the religious significance of the holiday." And the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph-Register editorialized: "Unfortunately, in too many instances the [Christmas] parties serve only to show that both the boss and his office staff can be somewhat less than human when they let down their hair. Instead of raising office morale, such parties tend to lower office morals...
LUCIEN LEUWEN (Book Two: THE TELEGRAPH-415 pp.)-Stendhal-New Directions...
...story of Lucien in politics is told in The Telegraph, part two of Lucien Leuwen, the unfinished "third masterpiece" of French Novelist Stendhal. With last spring's publication of part one, The Green Huntsman (TIME, June 26), Stendhal's story is now available in English for the first time...
...show little of their social arithmetic. It is as though they had been kept by a brilliant clerk who, in the first volume, scribbled a love story over his accounts, and in the second, glimpsing the significance of the figures he was adding, covered the pages with invective. The Telegraph is one of the most savagely witty books ever written...
...navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...