Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress we shall have no Ambassador to Mexico, but that our affairs will be handled by Charge d'Affaires George T. Summerlin, already in Mexico City. The reason for this is that an Ambassadorial appointment must be approved by the Senate, and President Coolidge is unwilling to despatch an Ambassador who might later be unacceptable to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Before the War a cable despatch of 1,000 words was unusually lengthy...
Josephus Daniels, ex-Secretary of the Navy: "Somewhere in Nebraska, while on a speaking tour, I lost a shirt, size 16. A despatch from Gering, Neb., stated it is, or was, an ordinary shirt, but 'prized highly' by me. Another said Mrs. Daniels made the shirt. Another said it was the shirt I wore most while bossing the Navy...
...despatch relates) 50 bandit-soldiers were "put on the mat" for insubordination. They expected a "severe reprimand," but it is said, they got a severe dose of lead from the rifles of the regulars...
Gloria Caruso, three-year-old daughter of the late tenor: " I am summering at Deauville. A despatch said that I ' romp around in a little one-piece bathing suit, just like the big girls...