Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was up at once. Clutching the dispatch box with both hands, he thrust out his chin and growled ominously, "With great respect, may I plead humbly with the right honorable and learned gentleman to allow his duties to the House on an occasion of so much interest as this to take precedence over almost any engagement in the country...
...Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise to be liked, too watchfully unbending to be confided in, too coldly ambitious to be loved. Few if any Republicans doubted that Dewey's administration could be counted on to get things done with competence and tidy dispatch. It would move surely, after poring over all the facts. It would be alert, but would avoid any sudden changes of policy. It might be short on imagination, but it would certainly be long on efficiency...
...Among others on Johnson's list: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...Denver Post Editor Palmer Hoyt (see below) last week, he had hired Socialist Norman Thomas to cover the G.O.P. and Democratic conventions. Hoyt, who had been impressed by Thomas' guest editorials in the Post, promptly sold his convention coverage to twelve other papers (including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Houston Post...
...Post-Dispatch received a $500 gold medal; individual prize winners, $500 each...