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The Thule Society (/ ˈ t uː l ə /; German: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist and Völkisch group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, named after a mythical northern country in Greek legend.
The NAACP sent a telegram to Acting Governor Willard Arnold Johnson (1862–1923) on July 8, 1920, protesting the lynching and urged the Governor to take immediate action to apprehend and punish members of the mob. [22] [21] A policeman identified as being part of the mob was dismissed from the Paris Police Department. [23]
Western Union telegram (1930) Western Union telegram sent to President Dwight Eisenhower wishing him a speedy recovery from his heart attack on Sept 26, 1955. A telegram service is a company or public entity that delivers telegraphed messages directly to the recipient. Telegram services were not inaugurated until electric telegraphy became ...
A greeting telegram unique to the UK was the practise of the monarch sending a message to citizens reaching their hundredth birthday. Instituted by George V in 1917, in the 1940s a special telegram bearing a Royal Crest was introduced. There were only 24 recipients in 1917, rising to 255 in 1952 and by 2015, over 8,000 messages were sent, but ...
The early 1920s were the peak years for ORT membership; by 1922, the union boasted 78,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Some railroads, including the Santa Fe, the Louisville and Nashville, and the Great Northern, maintained essentially the same agreements with the ORT that they had established during the years of government control.
Here are some shots of Keller’s people and places from the 1920s to the 1950s, from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives. Feb. 7, 1947: Keller firefighter Chief D. W. Tullous Fort Worth Star ...
A group of New York newspapers formed the New York Associated Press (NYAP) in 1846 to regularize news transmission. According to Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, after a rocky start, NYAP's relationship with telegraph companies improved significantly once Western Union became the dominant player in 1866.
Here’s a look back at Fort Worth Star-Telegram photos capturing everyday life in Grapevine from the 1920s through the 1950s. ... The group of four are Grapevine’s winning 440-yard relay team ...