Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former pollywog members of the President's party have all survived [their Equator-crossing initiation], but while they are recuperating, this dispatch is being sent not by Mr. [Secretary Steve] Early but by the Senior Shellback himself...
...rest of his new gear Franklin Roosevelt approved with gusto and dispatch-Spend-Lend, Wages & Hours, Deficiency Bill, etc. And during the week he added two executive devices of his own: 1) a raise in pay for all WPA workers in 13 Southern States; 2) a loosening of requirements in bank examinations...
From Moscow last week came a dispatch that a two-headed, four-armed, single-bodied human female born last November still lives. Named Irina & Galina, on the principle that the heads have separate personalities, the dicephalous infant is reported to smile and to respond to her names. Irina & Galina is also noteworthy in that, unlike most monsters, she has a definite usefulness...
...drive a costly affair in men and munitions. Thousands more Moors and Riffs landed at Algeciras from Spanish Morocco. In Italy, no secret was made of heavy replacements of airplanes and pilots for the Rightist air force and it was freely predicted that Dictator Benito Mussolini might have to dispatch more "volunteers'' to Spain before the Rightists could win the war. At Burgos, Generalissimo Franco was reported to have ordered more air raids on merchant shipping at Leftist ports...
...Times-Dispatch Richmond...