Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious blend of bells, roars and radio speeches This sort of thing is so hard on the average correspondent's nerves, that he usually sends most of his copy by telegraph, where the censorship is automatic and predictable. A little palm-greasing will sometimes get a dispatch by courier over the border into France, from either camp...
...London before returning to the U. S. His first year as the Foundation's president saw no sensational shifts of Rockefeller procedure but a continuation and broadening of traditional policy. His administration was proving quite satisfactory to his trustees and there was a note of crispness and dispatch in the Rockefeller Center offices which would have gladdened the Baptist heart of old John D. Sr., who died during Mr. Fosdick's first year...
...passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy to Juneau and dispatch the draft itself, for safekeeping, to the brand-new National Archives Building...
...last week that tireless journalistic tribune of the people, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, had gone far enough into the background of the sale to start a first class Missouri scandal. The Board of Fund Commissioners' official explanation of Baum, Bernheimer's third big bond purchase was that the State Bi-Partisan Advisory Board had recommended "immediate" sale of the bonds to pay for July and August construction work at State prisons, that a public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware...
Significantly the Sung-Kazuki "verbal truce" as it was called, came just as the Nanking censor passed this Associated Press dispatch: "A survey of trustworthy information today indicated that the Chinese Central Government was making no real military dispositions to fight Japan in North China...