Word: despatche
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...reanimating the great politicians of their younger days. It is a wandering book digressing confoundedly. The greater part of its space and the better part of its piquancy are allotted to the first two of the four decades in review. McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson pass through with dignified despatch at the end. Perhaps too many of the dramatis personae of the later acts are still living, for Mr. Barry to tell his best anecdotes of them...
...time of the Turco-Russian War, the Post appeared to be stealing News despatches. The News printed a despatch concerning a riot in Servia and in the despatch were some Servian words. The Post printed it and the next day the News published a translation: "The McMullens' (publishers of the Post) will steal this sure." Within a couple of years Lawson was able to buy out the Post. In 1881 he founded The Morning News, later called The Chicago Record, later merged into the Record-Herald and finally sold to Hearst to become The Herald and Examiner...
...Plundering Red Guards massacred 800 women and children in reprisal for peasant attacks" stated a despatch from Helsingfors in Finland...
...longest despatch ever cabled, it was sent by regenerating repeaters over four cables. "An unparalleled feat," said Newcomb Carlton, Western Union President...
...Broglie was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. The duke has devoted much time to chemical research, but is better known for developing wireless telegraphy in the French Navy and for inventing undersea wireless to submarines. He is also interested in the notorious radio, and, as the despatch said, "radio enthusiasts now have a young and active representative in the Institut de France...