Word: dispatched
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...rainbow trout). On his return to Denver, Ike hardly had time to greet the First Lady and Mrs. Doud before he was engulfed in affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman of the Planning Board of the National Security Council, had flown in from Washington with a fat dispatch case full of international problems, and was waiting at the summer White House when Ike arrived. After a four-hour conference, the President decided to summon John Foster Dulles to Denver for a full report and consultation (see above...
...week Canadian-born Thomson crossed the ocean again for the biggest newspaper deal of his brief but spectacular career. For about $3,000,000, he bought control of Scotland's small but influential 136-year-old morning Scotsman (circ. 55,000) and its sister papers, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch (71,000) and the Weekly Scotsman (66,000). In taking control of the papers from old Scottish family ownership, Thomson gets a staff of 800, a 13-story Renaissance-style building that cost $2,400,000 in 1904, and the prestige of a pioneer publishing company. On the Scotsman...
...Further research would have shown the truckers exactly what former Governor Smith did deny. He denied telling the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Missouri legislators had received money from truck lobbyists. But he did tell a legislative investigating committee that he understood from others that money had changed hands to defeat a bill to increase truck license fees...
...fast-breaking news, correspondents often telephoned London at the same time that they cabled their censored dispatches. If they strayed a single word from the censored text, the telephone line always went abruptly dead. To warn deskmen in A.P.'s London bureau, Gilmore sometimes wrote at the end of a dispatch, "Please give this a careful reading; I had to write it in a hurry," which they knew meant "The censor's been hacking at this one; watch it closely...
...Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. backed up his cartoonist, and so did the Post-Dispatch in an editorial: "The idea that Jacob Burck should be banished behind the Iron Curtain is nothing less than preposterous . . . There is nothing 'subversive' whatever about his metropolitan daily newspaper cartooning, which now dates back more than 16 years. Assume that he realized his error and . . . sincerely changed his affiliation . . . Should the U.S. then not want to reclaim him as it has . . . others who saw their mistake...