Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your story about New Frontier nip-ups, and President Roosevelt's requirements for unlucky foreign diplomats [Feb. 15], brought to mind William Roscoe Thayer's account of the dispatch that the new French Ambassador M. Jusserand sent to Paris soon after his arrival in this country during Roosevelt's term of office...
...Also the slogan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch-which thought of it first...
Recalling, perhaps the dispatch with which President Kennedy recently disposed of the small band of willful steel executives, ex-President Eisenhower took a potshot last Wednesday at what seems to be his own nemesis. Circling his beloved boondocks in support of ailing Republicans, Ike lambasted that "small band of unauthorized professors from a particular college" who through Kennedy Administration programs, are trying "to tell me and to tell everyone how to live." Eisenhower went on to mention that he isn't about to trust his own future or that of his grandson to any "little clique of self-appointed professors...
Legislation & Law. The common pattern of parliamentary procedure follows the British model, even to the traditional mace, wigs and dispatch boxes of Westminster. The 51-year-old Commonwealth Parliamentary Association shuttles a constant stream of M.P.s through legislative halls around the world. Though all of its former colonies do not share Britain's respect for justice, the basis of the judiciary system is English common law everywhere except in Ceylon (where the precedent is Roman Dutch law). The most humble Nigerian native can, as a Commonwealth citizen, appeal to the mightiest judges in Britain through the Queen...
...scorn available jobs as laborers or on the docks as "Arab work." Some have turned to crime, are readily identifiable as holdup men because of their throaty accents. So alarmingly has Marseille's crime rate risen, in fact, that the central government in Paris has been forced to dispatch 800 riot troopers to the city to beef up the local police force...