The eight general managers of Western Union Telegraph Co. last week received Circular Letter No. 467-31 from their colleague, Superintendent Frederick W. Lienau. Mr. Lienau, now Western Union's contact man with state and national rate-making bodies, once engaged a Harvard man whose job was to probe into Western Union's letter files all over the country to see that good English was being used by the company. Schooled at Heidelberg, versed in German, French and Greek. Contact Man Lienau is still a stickler for proper English usage. Now he had apparently been pained beyond endurance, for he wrote: "Somewhere there cumbers...
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