Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excerpt from a Philadelphia despatch in the Democratic New York Times: "Last week hurried conferences on the subject of finance as well as organization were held by the party leaders here and in New York. Chairman Butler conferred with E. T. Stotesbury, the Philadelphia partner of Morgan & Co., and plans were immediately set afoot in Pennsylvania by W. T. Mellon of Pittsburgh and Joseph R. Grundy of Philadelphia to raise $600,000 in that State for use elsewhere...
...Mecca, King Husein last week abdicated the Throne of Hejaz and the Califate-Islam was again without a Calif for the second time within a year. King Husein, tears in his eyes, declared that his abdication was a temporary measure designed to protect Mecca from possible destruction. A despatch from Cairo stated that the royal signature to the document of abdication was affixed only after "he had spent many hours in prayer and wireless communication with his sons," Faisal and Abdullah...
...failure of the French Governor of Guadeloupe to make a report on a recent bombing outrage, which occurred during an election, caused the Minister of the Colonies to despatch last week a warship to the island. Meanwhile, the Governors of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guiana and Reunion have been summoned to Paris for a conference on reforms...
...Mascagni, due to arrive in the U. S. in a few days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent my program...
...matter to such an extent that it would ship the remains of the deceased Consul to America-aboard a Persian man-of-war if Persia possessed one. But inasmuch as it is unable to do so, it agrees to pay the expenses which may be incurred by the despatch of an American man-of-war to receive the remains...