Word: despatch
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Unfortunately this coal was costing sixty cents more per ton. Obviously, now that the voters minds were no longer preoccupied by the shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot...
Early reports generally agreed that there was a heavy fog at the time. If so, it is difficult to explain why the squadron was proceeding at 20 knots. However, in a despatch to the Navy Department Admiral Coontz, Commanding the U. S. Fleet, said...
...Congress we shall have no Ambassador to Mexico, but that our affairs will be handled by Charge d'Affaires George T. Summerlin, already in Mexico City. The reason for this is that an Ambassadorial appointment must be approved by the Senate, and President Coolidge is unwilling to despatch an Ambassador who might later be unacceptable to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Before the War a cable despatch of 1,000 words was unusually lengthy...
Josephus Daniels, ex-Secretary of the Navy: "Somewhere in Nebraska, while on a speaking tour, I lost a shirt, size 16. A despatch from Gering, Neb., stated it is, or was, an ordinary shirt, but 'prized highly' by me. Another said Mrs. Daniels made the shirt. Another said it was the shirt I wore most while bossing the Navy...