Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ross Sterling bought the Houston Post-Dispatch (later the Post) and installed as president Will Hobby, a successful Beaumont publisher and one of the most popular governors Texas ever had. Oveta went to work as a clerk in the circulation department. Ike Culp and Hobby were old friends. After the death of Hobby's wife, Oveta and Will began to see each other after office hours. In 1931, when Oveta was 26, Hobby 53, they were married...
...denationalization of truck transport, Churchill heard Acting Opposition Leader Herbert Morrison saying: "There is no hurry about this bill; in fact, it would be a good thing if it were never passed at all." Churchill rose to the fray. Standing with his feet apart, dimpled hands on the dispatch box, his face flushed a winy pink, he said: "The Right Hon. Gentleman is a master of the art of trying to have it all ways at once." His next words were almost lost in the din of angry voices. But Churchill went right on taunting and scoffing the Opposition...
Frosting Last. Butler did not prematurely betray the news that lay in the battered red dispatch box in which budgets are transported each April from the Treasury to Commons. Before the House, he went at it as a boy eats cake-saving the sugariest bits of frosting until last...
...relations. Winston Churchill put him up in his country home at Chequers, and wrote afterwards: "Molotov's room [was] thoroughly searched by his police officers . . . The mattresses were all prodded in case of infernal machines. At night a revolver was laid out beside his dressing gown and his dispatch case...
...foreign ambassador in Moscow concluded a recent dispatch to his government with the cryptic sentence: "The story of Stalin's death has not yet been written." The Russian experts of two other nations (both of whom served tours of duty in Moscow) have pieced together estimates of the situation which agree remarkably well, though arrived at independently. Their interpretation: ¶ That Stalin last fall became worried by slackness in the Soviet leadership, which accounts for the fervent denunciation of nepotism, inefficiency and mismanagement at the null Party Congress in October...