Word: despatch
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...Mascagni, due to arrive in the U. S. in a few days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent my program...
...matter to such an extent that it would ship the remains of the deceased Consul to America-aboard a Persian man-of-war if Persia possessed one. But inasmuch as it is unable to do so, it agrees to pay the expenses which may be incurred by the despatch of an American man-of-war to receive the remains...
...issue of July 28, TIME stated that "according to a despatch from Prague," Jan Garrigue Masaryk, son of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, President of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, had won the hand of Mrs. Robert Leatherbee, daughter of Charles R. Crane, onetime President of the Crane Valve Co., onetime U. S. Minister to China. Last week, TIME received from Mrs. Leatherbee a categorical denial of the engagement...
...Government resigning at this time? The despatch was silent. In March, 1923 (TIME, March 31, 1923), the last general election was held for the Narodna Skupshtina (National Assembly) and no further election is constitutionally due until 1927. But the patriarchal Premier has been experiencing much opposition both within and without Parliament. Ever since the 70 Croatian Agrarians consented to sit in the Assembly, in April of this year, the old Premier's position has become more and more difficult, and it is not surprising that he has decided to refer the issues to the country, albeit reluctantly...
American Jews are to aid their Chinese brethren,* in the Jewish colony of Kvaifeng Fu, to preserve Judaism, said a despatch from Shanghai...