Word: despatches
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...delivered promptly." Fancy Language. Far different from the accent of the First Assistant Postmaster General was the accent of a bulletin issued last week by Third Assistant Postmaster General R. S. Regar. Mr. Regar merely wanted to urge the public to address its Christmas mail plainly, wrap it securely, despatch it early, prepay postage fully. He prefaced his message as follows: "The tang in the air and the wonderful colors of autumn leaves evidence the fact that another year is its close and that the holiday season, with its spirit of good-will and cheer, will soon be here...
...does. Like the President, they could align Mr. Morrow's undoubted, ability and his Morgan connection as natural complements. They could see the U. S. well served by an understanding of Mexican conditions that has been found serviceable by J. P. Morgan & Co. They could remember the thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William A. Mitchell, U. S. A., in 1925; how, as chairman of the President's Aircraft Board, Mr. Morrow mapped out the Government air program now going forward...
...year-old invention of one F. E. Gray of Philadelphia. Four years ago Mr. Gray devised a new place to drop nickels- the Sodamat. From the original Soda-mat all a patron got for his nickel was an ice-cream soda or other-soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models installed last week on Broadway had lights, carbonation, electric refrigeration, neat push buttons. Concoctions: orange, grape, lime, ginger...
...remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife of Wm. Scoville Moore; Constance, wife of Wm. Gray Elmslie...
Chancellor Seipel, barricaded with his Cabinet in the Parliament building, could at first do no more than secretly despatch couriers to loyal outlying garrisons where troops might be found to take the place of the obstinately passive garrison at Vienna...