Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plundering Red Guards massacred 800 women and children in reprisal for peasant attacks" stated a despatch from Helsingfors in Finland...
...longest despatch ever cabled, it was sent by regenerating repeaters over four cables. "An unparalleled feat," said Newcomb Carlton, Western Union President...
...Broglie was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. The duke has devoted much time to chemical research, but is better known for developing wireless telegraphy in the French Navy and for inventing undersea wireless to submarines. He is also interested in the notorious radio, and, as the despatch said, "radio enthusiasts now have a young and active representative in the Institut de France...
William C. Bruce, junior U. S. Senator from Maryland: "The Baltimore Sun printed a despatch to the effect that I had quit the Senate Chamber in a rage because of an attack on me by a Democratic colleague. In a letter to the Sun, I said: 'Your correspondent should have stated that I left the Senate Chamber because I was hungry, not angry. ... As I left the Chamber at a time when Senator Caraway was making some characteristic observations upon my speech, it is, perhaps, not strange that your Washington representative should have jumped to the conclusion that I left...
Holland. A despatch said laconically: "The Dutch Government has decided to extend de jure recognition to the Russian Soviet Government." Confirmation was not obtained...