Word: despatching
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...saloon waiters plunged head first into their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...
Editor Powell managed to despatch his taxi driver to the hotel where one of his staff was staying. Few minutes later "a gentleman with authority" entered U. S. Steel's private police station, refused to identify himself except as "a company official." Said...
...worth $500, has been in Tiffany's Manhattan vaults since 1857, when it was presented to the New York Yacht Club by the owners of the little schooner America, which had won it in 1851. America, later called Camilla and Memphis, was used as a despatch boat in the Civil War, later sold for $5,000. In 1901 she was put in drydock at Boston. In 1921, she was presented to the U. S. navy. Now at Annapolis, America is the oldest of the 5,338 yachts listed in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts...
Until he receives advice from his lawyers, Professor Salvemini will not take any action against the Associated Press and the Italian newspapers in New York, which are controlled by pro-Fascists. The Associated Press was responsible for the spread of the charges in American papers, including in its despatch the statement that he was "the most hated man in Italy...
...Great Britain the Budget is an ancient red leather despatch box which rests on a table in the House of Commons and for most of the year serves as a convenient elbow rest for weary orators. In parliamentary language the British Budget is not "presented" but "opened" once a year. No opening is so well attended, for what the box contains vitally affects the pocket of every inhabitant of Great Britain. For the second time in his career, greying, long-necked Neville Chamberlain opened the Budget last week in a speech that took two hours and left most...