Word: despatching
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Still careful never to employ so coarse a word as "legs," Manchester's inimitable Guardian published recently the following despatch, dated not from "London" but meticulously from "Fleet Street" in London...
...sterberg, who frequently has indulged in Jew-baiting, really had a Jewish grandfather, Selig Abraham Düsterberg. According to Der Angriff Col. Düsterberg's grandmother was of Jewish descent too, his great-grandfather was administrator of the Jewish culture society in Paderborn in 1824. Immediately followed a despatch from the Jewish Tele graph Agency that Col. Düsterberg had resigned his position with the following bitter announcement: "I actually originated from Jews, but I have only now learned the fact myself...
...traveler's troubles. The sensationalized murder of Columbia University's Henrietta Schmerler when she bungled among the Apaches (TIME, March 28, et ante) has made every institution wary of inept field agents. But Professor Barbour held his tongue until last week from Buenos Aires came a fresh despatch : "The existence of white Indians with blonde hair, who live like animals . . . was confirmed by Dr. Donald S. Wees, Harvard Museum explorer. . . . The explorer said the Indians were completely naked and without homes, shelter or traps of any kind, subsisting on food gathered in the jungles or shot with...
...snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make his budget speech, cast a quick glance up at the packed public galleries...
Ferocious Rear Admiral Koichi Shio-sawa was under a cloud last week. Word came from Tokyo that he had been superseded by Vice Admiral Kichisaburo No mura. This was immediately followed by a Shanghai despatch to the effect that Admiral Shiosawa had committed hara-kiri in shame. He had not. Rear Admiral Shiosawa remained in official command of the First Fleet, stationed at Shanghai, but Vice Admiral Nomura, higher ranking officer, arrived from Sasebo Naval Base as a sort of supervisor. Pleasant grey-haired Admiral Nomura, with many a friend in the U. S., looks startlingly Nordic. During...