Word: despatched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With regard to the Earl of Balfour, a despatch from Cairo stated that Balfour's train was ferried across the Suez. It is well known that there are no bridges across the Canal...
According to a despatch from Moscow, ex-War Lord Leon Trotzky was not elected a member of the Council of People's Commissars, as stated in TIME last week (Page 10, col. 1). It was expected that M. Trotzky would be made Commissar of Foreign Trade; but, at the eleventh hour, it was decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky...
...Explorer MacMillan's intention to pay a brief visit to the North Pole while he is in that neighborhood next summer. If he does, he may have company. Last week, a radio despatch from the steamer Pram, plowing through cold seas for Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, reminded the world that Captain Roald Amundsen, after cruel vicissitudes (TIME, Nov. 24), had got an aero-arctic expedition underway...
According to a despatch from West Frankfort, Ill., the motive power of The West Frankfort American's press ceased to function last week. Editor Byron Elkins cogitated. He stepped into the street, backed "a small automobile" into his shop, jacked up the wheels, attached a belt, ran off his editions "at the rate of 30 miles an hour." He alleged that he got "1,500 papers to a gallon of gasoline...
Other colleges, said the Cambridge despatch, "were conspicuous by their absence" in this vote. Equally conspicuous, thought the most generous reader, were certain facts omitted in the despatch: What "scholars and scientists" voted? Who won in Astronomy and German, the other two first places open? What was meant by "excellence of teaching"−method, personnel, equipment? How were the voters instructed? What weight did individual reputations bear in such a vote? What weight person- alities, tradition, foreign esteem...