Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After graduating from Harvard ('30), he worked as a reporter and adman for the New York Times and Syracuse Post-Standard, did public relations (forthe Panama Canal), ran the Casa Grande (Ariz.) weekly Dispatch for two years before joining the Navy, then sold it at war's end. With his own $20,000, a borrowed $55,000, and an option to buy the News in his pocket, Tom Robinson persuaded such well-heeled Carolinians as former Army Secretary Gordon Gray and Robert M. and James G. Hanes, operators of one of the state's biggest textile mills...
...eagles, even when sitting, must be represented as if they were flying." No great soldier himself, he worried his general staff, as Author Kürenberg puts it, by "losing himself more and more in external trappings, designing new uniforms and braidings or inventing cords and silver whistles for dispatch riders." He could be arrogant enough to tell King Alfonso of Spain publicly to go back and put his uniform on right, so incredibly undiplomatic as to say at the death of his uncle, King Edward VII of England: "An outstanding political personality has suddenly disappeared from the European stage...
Mormon Elder Benson prayed aloud for the health of the President and Secretary Dulles, and for the accomplishment of their mission. Then Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. briefed the Cabinet on developments at Geneva and passed around an "eyes only," top-secret dispatch from the President, outlining his mutual arms-inspection plan. Each member read the message silently, then passed...
...Washington many members of Ike's own Cabinet had not been told. Defense Secretary Wilson was aware of the general outlines, but new Army Secretary Brucker admitted that it was news to him. Key members of Congress got a top-secret dispatch containing an outline of the proposal only a few hours before the President delivered it. It was handed to them personally by an Assistant Secretary of State...
...foreign diplomats have been impressed by his relaxed manner and self-confidence. Once, referring to Stalin (six months after Stalin's death). Bulganin remarked casually: "He messed everything up." To one veteran U.S. observer, Bulganin seems "reasonable, intelligent and able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin. No one has to hover at his elbow...