Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While brokerage firms were hustling in the hustings, there was still a virgin market in at least one big city. The 1949 consumer survey made by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press reported that 90% of St. Paul citizens in top salary brackets had never bought a share of stock or a corporation bond...
...irascible old General Stilwell, in 1944, sneering in his reports to Washington over Chiang's reluctance to swallow "the bitter pill of recognizing the Communists"-as if recognition of the Communists would be plain good medicine for a government needing a cathartic. The same year saw the dispatch of Henry Wallace, of all citizens, to Chiang to urge accord with the Communists. There was sardonic humor in the State Department record of his conversations: "Mr. Wallace again stressed the point that there should be no situation in China which might lead to conflict with the U.S.S.R. ... Mr. Wallace referred...
...first advertisement in 1919, in his own New Appeal, Haldeman-Julius got 5,000 replies. When he took a $150 flyer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he got back $1,000 in orders. Later, misplacing the copy for another ad, he dashed off an eye-catching substitute: WOULD YOU SPEND $2.98 FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION? Thousands of customers answered...
Owlish, excitable Ralph Coghlan (rhymes with oglin') has a singular facility for making people mad. In ten often-turbulent years as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial page, he has assailed, annoyed and angered many a judge, politician and businessman. Sometimes his editorial trumpeting was in the best crusading tradition of the Post-Dispatch; at other times, it was shrill...
...Louis last week, the Post-Dispatch (circ.: 271,047) hired the first Negro reporter in its 71-year history. The P-D's new man: John Henry Hicks, 21, of East St. Louis, Ill., a University of Illinois journalism graduate...