Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yaqui thus molest the so distinguished general in whose veins courses so much Yaqui blood? Friends of General Obregon widely expressed their surprise. Then a despatch reported that the Yaqui have been forcibly prevented by the Calles Government from making their usual pilgrimage to certain of their (Catholic) shrines. Allegedly their attack upon Obregon was intended as a reprisal for the Mexican Government's suppression of the Church (TIME...
...tanks exploded, killing its crew and several bystanders. A pitched battle in which some 50 persons were killed ensued up and down the Kifissia Boulevard. At last Dictator Kondylis announced from the justly suspected telegraph office: "Athens is quiet, and the situation is well in hand." A subsequent despatch told of reports that the Royalist leader Colonel Plastiras was marching upon Athens with intent to coup...
...erroneous assignment of Mayor Lawrence F. Quigley to Lawrence, Mass., instead of to Chelsea, Mass., was due to an erroneous news despatch; is regretted...
...Kellogg headline. ". . . The Spokesman for the Secretary of State can make no comment upon the Mexican situation." There must even be a Spokesman to refuse to comment. Enraged beyond being gentlemen, readers turn to pages where cavort persons who do not hold office. Here, for instance, is a despatch announcing the year-old secret marriage of John Hayes Hammond Jr.: "When confronted, the Spokesman for the Hammond family reluctantly confessed to the match...
...insignificant news despatch from Britain told that his Anglican Grace, the Bishop of London, will disembark on the U. S. heath "within the next few weeks." The Bishop, the item noted, would bring his vestments with him. His equipage will include a wardrobe which would be the envy of a Zulu wife-hunter for brilliance, of an Eskimo seal-hunter for warmth, of a U. S. antique-hunter for traditions. The most venerable are the: Alb, which is a white linen robe, once form-fitting (contracted from the flowing garment of Biblical times in order to give greater facility...