Word: despatching
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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...
Berlin received its first shipment of "real" bananas in a year. The word "real" was inserted in the despatch to prevent confusion with the well known German song, Ach, wir haben keinen bannanen, heute. Shipments arrived from Holland and England and 60,000 cases were placed on the market at the Hamburg docks. Heretofore the anti-luxury act has forbidden bananas, oranges...
Some time later The New York World printed a Washington despatch which carried the sentence: "Without calling any names, Mr. Harding spoke of a hypocritical publisher of a newspaper and it was understood he meant Mr. Hearst...
...visit of Mr. Johnson to Egypt was of concern to the Monitor's readers, it might have had the despatch cabled, or have interviewed Mr. Johnson on his arrival. The publication of the correspondence without apology was an indication of one of the worst of journalistic faults, laziness...