Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need of his presence during the session of the Legislature. He went to Mindanao where the Moros had massacred a detachment of Filipino constabulary. Instead of returning he sent for his aides and a hundred more constabulary. Then he set out on a tour of the disaffected region. His despatch to the War Department said: " Killing of constabulary grew out of alleged grievance against constabulary and local supervising teachers, all Filipinos...
...this combines to render European news service inadequate and misinforming. I believe that a man in the despatch room of the New York Tinies could learn more about conditions in Europe from the Associated Press despatches than could one who lived in a European city and read the European newspapers...
Under the headline-YOU RICH GIRLS, HERE COMES KING SEEKING A BRIDE!, the New York American printed a Universal Service press despatch which announced the imminent world tour of Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. According to this report, the King will go to Rome, Paris, Brussels, London, Berlin, Copenhagen looking for a princess with whom to mate. If he is unsuccessful, he will come to the U. S. and " unite the Saxe-Coburg und Gotha dynasty with the new aristocracy of wealth...
These 25,000,000 have been kept cognizant, morning and evening, of Mrs. Hearst's present European tour. A typical despatch from Madrid...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "In a chapel designed by me in the garden of my villa at Lake Garda I held night rites alone, burned laurel, scattered the ashes over the grave of an unknown soldier there. A newspaper despatch said that the ceremony excited artistic circles, that it was proposed that others perform similar rites for me when...