Word: despatch
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Amherst News Bureau, April 20 U. S. Office of Education officials in Washington said that they had opposed inclusion of the clause and received Amherst's notification with sympathy.... UPI despatch, April...
Winston Churchill wore an unusually subdued look as he stepped up to the despatch box in the House of Commons last week. As Minister of Defense, the old warrior, whose name and appearance Britons instinctively associate with bulldog-ging it through, faced a painfully ironic task. He announced that Britain's $13.1 billion rearmament program, which the Labor government inaugurated, will have to be cut back sharply. "There will be a lag," said Churchill glumly. "We shall not succeed in spending the ?1,250 million [budgeted for] this year. Some of the program must necessarily roll forward into...
...same evening the Associated Press carried this ominous despatch: "Boston, Nov. 19--A federal grand jury today indicted Manuel D. Craveiro of Seekonk on three charges of liquor law violations. The charges stemmed from the operation of an illegal still in Seekonk last August...
Therefore it is good to hear that the Salzburg Seminar is going to try and keep up its full educational program this summer, including the despatch of American students to help with the important job of explaining America to the Europeans. This work is probably more important now than it has over been before in the four years of the Seminar's operation; judging by reports coming out of Europe, U.S. actions are badly in need of clarification there...