Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empire News series was such a coup in sensation-hungry Fleet Street that the Sunday Dispatch tried to run neck and neck by publishing installments from the diary of a second-string hangman named William Willis. But Pierrepoint was so far out ahead that the Dispatch had to fall back on a new serial called "Liana-the Blonde from the Jungle...
...perceptibly hardened. Government spokesmen talk gravely of how essential Middle East oil is to Britain's very existence. Crisis phrases-such as "No appeasement"-leap from leader writers' typewriters. Though Sir Anthony Eden says nothing publicly, the government's tough line on Cyprus-the airborne dispatch of two battalions of paratroopers, the defiance of world opinion in exiling Archbishop Makarios-looks beyond Cyprus itself. Britain wants to be ready to act swiftly in the Middle East. It fears a new anti-British outbreak in Jordan, and is ready to fly in paratroopers to help young King Hussein...
...Another famed Democratic cartoonist the St. Louis Pest-Dispatch's Daniel Fitzpatrick refused to draw political cartoons in the 1936 campaign after his paper came out for Alf Landon...
...might easily be used by the Communists for propaganda purposes to damage the prestige of the United States," the hearings were secret; only Judge Barnes's testimony was made public. But other testimony leaked out. In it, jobbers gloomed that they are under the thumb of Fruit Dispatch. United Fruit's sales subsidiary. "There is no escape from
Sammy learned to gauge his customers. The late Joe McAuliffe, then covering politics for the Post-Dispatch and later managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once invaded Sam's bedroom for an urgent loan. "My pants were on the foot of the old brass bed." Bronstein recalls. "I told Joe to help himself to whatever he needed. He was a great newspaperman, and I didn't have to ever worry about an honest count from...