On May 22, 1886, The Washington Post published a shocking front-page scoop: Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for ...
The acquisition of BellSouth Corp. by AT&T Inc. would bring more than half of the traditional telephone business back under one roof and into the company once known as “Ma Bell,” whose history dates ...
The building that stands at 140 New Montgomery was built in 1925 for the Pacific Telephone Company, part of the Bell System. It was, at the time, the first significant skyscraper in San Francisco, as ...