Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany was vexed by President Roosevelt's attack on dictatorships in his opening message to Congress. So last week Der Angriff, organ of the regimented German Labor Front, solemnly reported in a dispatch from the U. S.: "Lack of officially organized aid for the needy has resulted in frightful misery. In Cleveland 65,000 are in dire need. Numerous hungry persons sit crying, often with small children, in the municipal welfare bureaus begging for food...
...America's farmers," said a United Press dispatch from Washington last week, "need not worry about another serious drought until 1975." Reason: Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot...
During the World War no correspondent would have dreamed of handing to a French or German censor a dispatch containing such obvious dynamite, however correct, and the placid Chinese censor as a matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating...
Last week at Hankow, to which Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went from Nanking, the Chinese authorities permitted United Press's Jack Belden to send a dispatch with this lead: "The Chinese Communist Party, already dominant in the coalition which forms the present Central Chinese Government, tonight extended its control to three more of the nation's defense areas." Mr. Belden went on to record "a general tendency which would give officials of the former Chinese Soviet Government . . . domination of almost the entire conduct of the struggle'' of China v. Japan. This was saying...
Pneumatic's troubles are now labor troubles. Its 200-odd workmen work only in postoffices. but are private employes, as such are not allowed to touch mail. They can do no more than receive, dispatch and open the lids of the greasy carriers for the postal employes. Their wages are the same as Government postal laborers-about $32 weekly-but their week is 60 hours instead of 40 hours. This, says the company's Vice President George J. Murray, is not what "President Roosevelt believes workmen should have." Only difficulty is that...