Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News. The only headlines were the names of the places from whence the "freshest advices," had come. For many years Printer Parkes devoted his front pages to despatches from England, Russia, France. Fortunate were subscribers if they found a foreign September despatch the following February. But colonists cared little how stale the news so long as it was interesting...
...Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses for the Army!" On the Chino-Russian front last week Commander Budenny had "enough" horses and cavalrymen ? 30,000 according to one despatch...
...Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving Honolulu and sent his despatches to the English government by a schooner sailing for Acapulco, Mexico. An American business man secured passage on this schooner, and Prime Minister Judd en trusted to him protests against the action of Captain Paulet, to be presented to the American and English governments. Arriving at Acapulco, the English despatch agent...
...feet of water. A gale was rising. In the House of Commons Britain's new First Sea Lord, Albert Victor Alexander, onetime railway yardworker, had his first important task in breaking the news of the disaster. He was obliged to conclude: "Steps are being taken with all despatch to locate the H-47. ... No hope can be entertained of any of the remainder of the crew being alive...
Gahagan. From Czechoslovakia came a despatch hailing Helen Gahagan, U. S. actress, as "outstanding American success of the Continental opera season." She had sung Tosca at Moravska-Ostrava well enough to be invited to perform in the Salzburg Festspiel, to sing Tosca, Thais and Manon at Bad Reichenhall and in Vienna. Miss Gahagan began taking her voice seriously only one year ago. On the U. S. stage ("Second Ethel Barrymore") she played in Manhattan (1922), Trelawney of the Wells, Young Woodley, The Enchanted April, The Sapphire Ring...